More of the same

I guess I haven't posted about church in a while. Shortly after this post (February 2022), the interim mentioned was basically...fired because the council didn't like him making any changes whatsoever. (Interims are supposed to make changes and sort of drag the congregation out of inertia/ruts they have been stuck in. But when you have the same person in charge for so long, like this place had, there gets to be a lot of inertia.) Anyway, they didn't have an interim, so we had to go with an interim-interim ("supply pastor") for a while, and now it's 2023 we're caught up to where we were in 2022 by having a "real" interim. The person who retired, and the "new" interim, are both some of the longest-tenured women pastors in this region and this denomination. So it's a cool record/statistic, but also in terms of "it would be good to have someone new," that's...not really what we have.

Part of the reason I don't like posting about church stuff is because most of what I would have to say is petty grumps. And like with math or Winnipeg, there are a lot of people who don't come from this tradition who would be like "organized religion, huh? yeah, you're right, it is terrible!" and I'm like...no, the stereotypes you're probably imagining do not apply here, the things I am frustrated with are not the things you're frustrated with.

( Anyway. )