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Saturday, October 17, 2009

Why I'm Wearing Pajamas to Church

There's a movement towards the "casual" in our day. We're casual in our speech. We're casual in our showing up for events and appointments ("casual" used for "late" here). We're casual in our clothing, too. It's this last area of casual I want to talk about. I can remember "casual dress" days were Fridays at work (back in the 90s). I looked forward all the more to the end of the week because I could wear jeans, a pullover shirt, no belt. I could dress comfortably. Now casual dress day is every day in the workplace. Right? And I've also noticed it's every Sunday in the church. Which brings me to what I really wanted to say. I've been thinking about wearing pajamas to church. Do you think that's crazy? Everybody else is wearing whatever they want to wear ~ from shorts and baseball caps, to flip-flops and sunglasses ~ you name it. So why not PJ's? And how do you think people might react to me if I came to service looking like I just got out of bed? Or what if it was a woman showing up in her night gown? Would she turn heads? Ya think? My point here isn't that I'm against dressing comfortably for church. (I'm all for it, quite frankly, just like I was on Fridays long ago.) But when is comfortable too comfortable? I think it's an important question to ask. Is there a point where "casual" goes too far?

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