Tag: church in popular culture

The unplugged wedding

More and more couples are asking their guests to put away their smart phones during their weddings. In a world that is more and more mediated through screens, this is a startling, even radical, suggestion.

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St. John Coltrane Church faces eviction

Sunday Masses are built on a live performance of “A Love Supreme,” a 33-minute opus that saxophonist Coltrane wrote to express the awesomeness of God. The Rev. Franzo W. King, the church’s founder, archbishop and sax player, and his wife, Mother Marina King, started the church after attending a Coltrane show in 1965. They had what they call a sound baptism.

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