SubscribeReplacing boredom with renewed faith
What is your weekly worship like? Do you enjoy it? Does it uplift you and prepare you for the coming week? Or do you find yourself sitting in church, doing your grocery list or counting the minutes before the sermon ends. If boredom with the routine of church services is a factor in your faith life, you may find some answers in what author Erica Brown has discovered.
“People are bored. People are terribly bored in churches and synagogues and mosques world-over. The liturgy can feel stale or archaic,” she wrote in an article for The Washington Post’s On Faith on-line column. “But boredom can actually help faith if we allow ourselves to wallow in it just long enough for it to spark creativity.”
Brown is the author of Spiritual Boredom: Re-discovering the Wonder of Judaism. Her article caught my attention because I have been wherein she is speaking — bored enough in church to do something about it. From the article, I also learned more about the rituals and routines of Judaism, which she says seeks to sacralize “everyday, ordinary acts and turning them into grander landscapes, backdrops for social justice and covenantal relationships.”
Learning something new is a good way to prevent boredom and to prompt deeper explorations of one’s own faith.
I hope your worship time this weekend is anything but boring.
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