The Light Fantastic

With David dancing before the ark and Salome dancing to get ahead, Clay Nelson explores in his Pentecost 6 sermon why dance and if we do are we dancing to Gospel music? "Whomever said church is boring has never attended on this particular Sunday. There is nothing boring about a whirling dervish David, dancing nearly nude before the Ark, making his wife mad as a meat axe. Nor is there anything boring about the gruesome details surrounding salacious Salome’s suggestive pole-dance for her daddy, Uncle Herod, to get her ahead. This stuff makes reality TV look tame. My problem is coming up with a sermon title worthy of such stories. Israel’s Got Talent has possibilities, or perhaps Dancing Queen… and King." Continue reading at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=503&id=948.