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Websites we'd rather not have seen
Mar. 24th, 2011 11:18 pmWhen I lived in San Francisco I attended Trinity Episcopal Church, the second oldest Episcopal congregation in the West and the oldest in California. The Rev'd Robert Warren Cromey was Rector, and while he was controversial, he was on the side of the angels most of the time and kept an inclusive and warm church going.
The parish has fallen on hard times later, with some staff difficulties and the discovery that the church building, which survived the 1906 and 1989 earthquakes, might not be structurally safe in the next one.
But their website contains this sentence (note the phrase in RED):
TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH was established in 1849 and is the oldest Episcopal church on the Pacific Coast. It is the second oldest congregation in the City of San Francisco. Known for its outspoken and progressive action on controversial topics (Add some here) Trinity lives on the edge of "then and now" constantly evolving and finding new life in its mission to bring the lords love, to any and all looking for the "peoples" church.
I hope and pray that this is a very recent first draft, but, sadly, I doubt it. I hope that the congregation grows and thrives; they deserve to after the upheavals of the past several years. But with a website as uninviting as this, the website won't contribute much to its success.
The parish has fallen on hard times later, with some staff difficulties and the discovery that the church building, which survived the 1906 and 1989 earthquakes, might not be structurally safe in the next one.
But their website contains this sentence (note the phrase in RED):
TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH was established in 1849 and is the oldest Episcopal church on the Pacific Coast. It is the second oldest congregation in the City of San Francisco. Known for its outspoken and progressive action on controversial topics (Add some here) Trinity lives on the edge of "then and now" constantly evolving and finding new life in its mission to bring the lords love, to any and all looking for the "peoples" church.
I hope and pray that this is a very recent first draft, but, sadly, I doubt it. I hope that the congregation grows and thrives; they deserve to after the upheavals of the past several years. But with a website as uninviting as this, the website won't contribute much to its success.
