Imagining the Lectionary: the majesty of God in majestic perspective (Proper 27A; Ordinary 32A)
contributor: David Perry
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Imagining the Lectionary: the majesty of God in majestic perspective (Proper 27A; Ordinary 32A)
Reflection accompanying images “site of the majestic cinema” and “majestic cinema floor mosaic in former entrance”
"Say an unqualified Yes to God, the God of Israel." (Joshua 24:23)
A couple of quick grab shots with my iPhone of the site of the old Majestic Cinema on the corner of Oswald Road and Mary Street in Scunthorpe lead me into the heart of the passage from Joshua, and the choice God asks the faithful to make. The text challenges us to put the majesty of God into majestic perspective if we are to avoid the self-evident fate of the cinema in the photographs.
Built in the heyday of cinema in the 1920's, the Majestic closed down in 2003 when its business was taken away by a brand new seven screen multiplex in the town centre. And just a little further down Oswald Road you can see a former church which is now a nightclub. It is clear enough that once the effects of competing attractions became overwhelming neither building was sustainable in terms of their primary purpose. The Majestic's former interior decoration remains as an ad hoc mural to now faded glory, and the remnants of its name in mosaic floor tiles is testimony to the tastes and culture of a bygone age.
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Reflection accompanying images “site of the majestic cinema” and “majestic cinema floor mosaic in former entrance”
"Say an unqualified Yes to God, the God of Israel." (Joshua 24:23)
A couple of quick grab shots with my iPhone of the site of the old Majestic Cinema on the corner of Oswald Road and Mary Street in Scunthorpe lead me into the heart of the passage from Joshua, and the choice God asks the faithful to make. The text challenges us to put the majesty of God into majestic perspective if we are to avoid the self-evident fate of the cinema in the photographs.
Built in the heyday of cinema in the 1920's, the Majestic closed down in 2003 when its business was taken away by a brand new seven screen multiplex in the town centre. And just a little further down Oswald Road you can see a former church which is now a nightclub. It is clear enough that once the effects of competing attractions became overwhelming neither building was sustainable in terms of their primary purpose. The Majestic's former interior decoration remains as an ad hoc mural to now faded glory, and the remnants of its name in mosaic floor tiles is testimony to the tastes and culture of a bygone age.
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