Garrison Keillor Quote
“I’m wary of ecumenism. I see nothing wrong with having six or 10 or 15 different churches of Christ in town and people trouping to each one. If the alternative is some nondenominational New Agey all-purpose homogenized feel-good exercise, then give me schism.”– Garrison Keillor, The Lutheran magazine (January 2002)
posted by David Browder at 4/25/2006 11:00:00 AM
2 Comments:
Schism over feel good seems to me to be more pretenous than real on his part. After all all the children in Wobegone are extra smart and bright. Maybe the feel good people were not attending a truly Christian church.
Maybe the children in Lake Wobegone are a sort of parody of what we all expect our lives to be. A lot of his stories are of people who are complete renegades in that ideal setting who upset the kind of elder brother types that inhabit Lake Wobegone.
I think you're certainly right that the establishment of Lake Wobegone was experiencing a kind of Latitudinarianism in their churches.
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