Rethinking Black Friday
Church movement aims to reclaim Christmas
More and more congregations spend Black Friday rethinking consumption.
By JEFF STRICKLER, Star Tribune
William Doherty won't be among the throngs in the shopping malls Friday morning. He will be in church.
Doherty, a professor in the Family Social Science Department at the University of Minnesota, is part of a growing backlash against the commercialization of Christmas. Last year, he helped his church, Unity Church Unitarian in St. Paul, hold a worship service on what has become known as Black Friday, the official kickoff of the holiday gift-buying bonanza and biggest retail shopping day of the year.
This year, he is helping launch a similar "Black Friday at Church" event at New Hope Baptist Church in St. Paul.
The protest against Christmas consumption, organized by the Advent Conspiracy, has become an international phenomenon. The program, created by three pastors in 2006, is being presented this year in as many as 1,500 churches, including several in the Twin Cities.
(More here.)
More and more congregations spend Black Friday rethinking consumption.
By JEFF STRICKLER, Star Tribune
William Doherty won't be among the throngs in the shopping malls Friday morning. He will be in church.
Doherty, a professor in the Family Social Science Department at the University of Minnesota, is part of a growing backlash against the commercialization of Christmas. Last year, he helped his church, Unity Church Unitarian in St. Paul, hold a worship service on what has become known as Black Friday, the official kickoff of the holiday gift-buying bonanza and biggest retail shopping day of the year.
This year, he is helping launch a similar "Black Friday at Church" event at New Hope Baptist Church in St. Paul.
The protest against Christmas consumption, organized by the Advent Conspiracy, has become an international phenomenon. The program, created by three pastors in 2006, is being presented this year in as many as 1,500 churches, including several in the Twin Cities.
(More here.)
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