Come be Baptist with us!

come be Baptist with us!

singing, we take the low road

we are all of us priests, picture that

we are southern and northern

we are clappers and stompers

Sunday and Wednesday we are prayer meeting

potluck eating neighbor greeting death cheating

we are all of us priests

we are fundies and libster card-carriers

and all the Bible leafing thumbing thumping loving in between

we are gleaming temples, wooden shacks

tipplers and teetotalers

handsitters, jitterbuggers

we are all priests

come join us

we can be Baptist together!

God has autographed every spot on our dance card

and it's a big dance, a barn dance, a rafter-shaking circle dance

and we whisper shout holler praise, welcome you in

we black white tan colorful loving Baptists

we priests 

the napowrimo challenge a few days ago was to write an ad. I'm behind on the challenges but after leading a Passover seder Monday night and thinking and talking about religious identity I had to come back to this piece I had started a few days earlier. I may even have won myself over again!