Such practices do impede Synod's ability to function as a deliberative body. So also does the short time-frame (1 week).
The fact is, most substantive decisions are made by the Board of Trustees these days and Synod dances to the tune they play. Where Synod does make a decision, it often seems as if they make its implementation optional.
I've never been a delegate to Synod. The way it is presently constituted, I rather hope I never am.
I would suggest that the creeds and liturgical resources that have always been in the Psalter have become more important than the rest of it. As churches buy CCLI licenses, install projectors and screens, move away from organ/piano-based hymnody in general, hymnals as such are becoming obsolete. Already the only time we take the Psalter out of the pew racks is when we're looking at one of the creeds or using one of the liturgical forms for baptism, communion, profession of faith, installation of office bearers, etc.
We would welcome publishing these separate from the hymnal - because we wouldn't buy the hymnal.
Posted in: Drama Queen
Agree. Hiring the Deputy Exec. Dir. they did seems to affirm the problem rather than solve it.
As for myself, I think I'd avoid a job with the acronym DED. "HI, I'm X, DED ('dead') CRC!" ;-)
Posted in: Do the Practices of Synod Diminish its Deliberative Nature?
Such practices do impede Synod's ability to function as a deliberative body. So also does the short time-frame (1 week).
The fact is, most substantive decisions are made by the Board of Trustees these days and Synod dances to the tune they play. Where Synod does make a decision, it often seems as if they make its implementation optional.
I've never been a delegate to Synod. The way it is presently constituted, I rather hope I never am.
Posted in: New Translations of Our Confessions in a New Hymnal?
I would suggest that the creeds and liturgical resources that have always been in the Psalter have become more important than the rest of it. As churches buy CCLI licenses, install projectors and screens, move away from organ/piano-based hymnody in general, hymnals as such are becoming obsolete. Already the only time we take the Psalter out of the pew racks is when we're looking at one of the creeds or using one of the liturgical forms for baptism, communion, profession of faith, installation of office bearers, etc.
We would welcome publishing these separate from the hymnal - because we wouldn't buy the hymnal.