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“Thank you, Thank you, Thank you”

01Aug
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The field of religion and the arts has lost a pioneer, a champion, a wonderful spirit. Doug Adams, one of my early mentors and cheerleaders, died this summer. I remember the first time I met Doug. I was teaching at Pacific School of Religion’s Summer Dance Week. This was even before I went to seminary and was still in the post-professional-dancer-turned-budding-theologian era of my life. Worship was starting and Doug came to the center aisle and flung a stack of worship bulletins in the air. We all had to scramble from our comfy pew seats to retrieve one. Talk about turning a sedentary congregation into one teeming with energy in 2 seconds flat!

Well, besides being a wonderfully creative and engaging teacher, Doug was an expert in liturgical arts and a prolific historian/theologian. (Read more about Doug here) I want to share with you his last theological treatise that he shared on e-mail with a network of folks in his last days…

“[A not-so-brief] theological expression I would do if I had the energy, but I do not have that energy left. What I do say is THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. That is the heart of Christian worship: Eucharist. I believe far too little thanks is expressed (in our culture, in our seminaries, in our worship.) So THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU!

Thanks, Doug, for once again getting it right. Simply, wonderfully, right. Your legacy lives on in your countless students and colleagues. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.

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