#46-Jean (Denim) Jackets

In the 1980's, jean jackets were invited into ApoPento world....holes, tears, and buttons on these jackets were optional but appreciated....It was stylish with the times but yet completely modest for our girls....

The problem was, no one has bothered to kick the Jean jackets out the back door after they overstayed their welcome....

In fact something funny happened in the Apo world with jean jackets in the late 80's/early 90's, the people who cared less about trends and being stylish started to adopt the jean jackets as their own, away from the the trendsetters.... Apparentely they are quite warm...

So whenever a fashion trend finds itself somewhere in between being considered stylish, and being considered very functional this only means one thing:

It's bound to be sold at Wal-mart! Which of course means that we will never see jean jackets leave our Apostolic denomination.....

Which means at some points Apostolic will be considered fashionable when the jean jackets do make their run at being in style, and at other times Apostolics will be wearing clothing that is considered 5 years expired.

Jean Jackets are here to stay, and whether the ladies got their jean jacket from wal-mart, forever 21, express, the Fashion Bug, or Lane Bryant, every Apostolic female has at least two and they wear them on several/many occasions: Mid-week services (what says informal attire better than jeans as a coat?) or fall youth functions or summer youth group or whenever they can't figure out something better to wear (which makes jean jackets the informal equivalent to leopard skin print for formal attire)....

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#150-Holy Magic Hair (sort of)

Preface: As with many posts, the claims made in this post are far from being definitive to the whole apostolic movement. In fact I has been very surprised and pleased with the openness of many apostolic officials and higher ups to denounce the doctrine of "magic hair" as a heresy in recent months. It must also be noted that whatever controversy may be derived from this post, the thoughts are not really my own. Many men more articulate and intelligent than I have already tried to openly combat this theory and have done so in a far more effective fashion than I could. For the most comprehensive understanding of Holy magic hair, please visit http://holymagichair.com/wordpress/ . Also note that this is not a criticism anyway in uncut hair, nor is it advocating hair cutting. I'm critiquing a doctrine that has developed around long hair. Okay, when I originally started SAL, I had a post about HMH (holy magic hair) in mind. However, after a beloved teacher of mine spoke o...

#280-Jeff Arnold and His "Idiot" Friends.

So basically this happened last week at Because of the Times (no, not the Kings of Leon album, but the preacher's conference that was named after the album): And by "this happened" I really mean a Jeff Arnold sermon-rant to formally announce his senility. Literally, the dude was Khrushchev slamming his shoe on a podium, a rambling Richard Sherman in a postgame interview, a conservative Michael "Shame on you Mr. Bush" Moore at the Oscars. In short, Jeff Arnold pulled a Kanye in front of anyone who matters in the UPC. And it's not like we didn't see it coming . For those who haven't been paying attention to Twitter or simply got wise enough to not really care one iota about the ongoing Reality TV tragicomedy that is the UPC, let me tell ya, you're missing a whole lot of chuckle moments. But to catch you up to speed.. here's the run-down of Mr. Arnold's sermon: -Confesses aspirations to be lauded by God as one of the greatest ...

#285 - #NAYC2015 (An Ode To Broken Commitments)

Editor's Comment: To ensure credit where credit is due, Glen McGee wrote this post (side note: goosebumps ahead)- Fresh on the heels of North American Youth Congress 2015 it’s the Stuff Apostolics Like Recap of Events! Nah, just kiddin. We actually have finally crossed the threshold of being so far removed we have absolutely no idea who sang, preached, screamed, got wifed up or anything else that may have occurred. I've had a post on my mind for a while now and given that I spent last night looking at the Instagram hashtags from NAYC, and became very, very sad, I thought now was a good time to post it. Looking through Twitter and Instagram there are countless posts of excitement and zealous emotion for the time spent there. And why wouldn’t there be? When you live in a culture that’s founded on isolation from everything that surrounds you, and you’re constantly reminded that you’re “in the world, not of it,” it’s absolutely intoxicating to completely take ...

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