The day Dave Bakke shared the story of Honey & Quinine in ihis fine column, I returned home from a half day of sub teaching to find two large bags inside my partially opened storm doon on the front porch. There were maybe ten bagels, four or five large loaves obviously from a bakery and some sliced bread from larger loaves. Included in the bounty was a flyer from First Baptist Church 301 West South Grand, a scone’s throw from Casa de Labradorios. It announced Sunday Celebration, a new Sunday worship service intended for contemporary Americans. I know these fine administrators of our shared Protestantness via the post office.
When I was producing the newsletter for Vinegar Hill Neighborhood Association, I invited readers to advertise for a minimal fee. My anonymous friends at First Baptist responded. That would have been enough to put them on my “A” Christmas card list . . . . if I ever get one together. The donation of the bread was enough to get them into Honey & Quinine.
The flyer explains
Sunday Celebration begins SUNDAY, May 20 and features Josh and Angie Walters and Jeff Whitehouse. . . . Straight Talk . . . . . Live Music . . . . . Short and Sweet: 5:00 to 5:50 p.m.
“Not your grandmother’s church service. We do that at 10:45 a.m.
Bring her then.
For more information, call 523-7731.
I am a card-carrying United Methodist, and I’m likely to be one for the rest of this life and well into the next. But though I don’t attend services as often as I should, I applaud and celebrate the faith of all moderate believers of any faith, especially those who share the bread of human kindness with unemployed poets and writhers. If you are of the Christian faith or nominally incllined in that direction, I join with First Baptist Church in inviting YOU to attendf their Sunday Celebration.
THANK YOU FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH FOR YOUR UNSOLICITED KINDNESS. That’s the best kind there is.
And thank you, readers Juan and all, for sharing this story.
Live long . . . . . . and proper.
