Hubby and I put aside our plans to attend services today at Washington Ethical Society — we’ve attended off-beat services for Easter the last two years, but it’s really not convenient to get there from where we live — for solid, well-put-together Presbyterianism. We had gone to Georgetown Presbyterian Church last year (the Spiritualists were in the afternoon) and liked it. They have a new minister, Camile Cook, this year, whose 2010Â Easter service in London is reviewed here.
Yes: she wore gown, bands and hood — thus the relevance for this blog — plus white stole. Â A good service.
And Happy Easter to you.
[This was inadvertently posted on the wrong blog entry — apologies, and feel free to delete the errant comment.]
I trust you’ve been to 4th Pres in Chicago — they use those [Bands] there, too… If you haven’t been, try to visit when you’re in the Midwest. Beautiful, high-church experience combined with progressive in theology and social witness.
There appears to be some renewed interest among Reformed types in the wearing of collar and bands. I’ve made it a custom for years to wear them on special occasions — church anniversaries, ordinations, installations, Baccalaureate.
Wallace Robbins, famously of First Unitarian in Worcester, always wore collar and bands on Sunday.