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There's been something of a pattern to the reception of "Mad Men" over the last few seasons. First, there's a few place-setting episodes that people express mild disappointment with. Then, about midway through the season, people complain that nothing's happened, and that the show might have started going downhill, and that old ground is being covered. And then it all comes together in the final few episodes, and people start saying it might have been the best season ever. Season six followed that pattern like clockwork, and it's a mark of what a great year it's been for TV that, despite the show still being in its creative peak, it's only in our number five slot (though as we said, all of these top five are pretty much interchangeable depending on mood). Even lower-key plot-wise than season four, season five saw fans swapping conspiracy theories for weeks. Megan was going to be killed by Charlie Manson! Megan was already killed by Charlie Manson! Bob Benson was Don Draper's illegitimate son! But as ever, creator Matthew Weiner refused to play to expectations, and while the finale (and indeed, the few episodes leading up to it) had some major, show-changing events, the show always veered away from meeting expectations, and continues to surprise with where it takes its characters without ever dipping into soapiness (well, perhaps the fate of Pete Campbell's mother). There was admirable course-correction too; this season saw both Pete and Betty, who'd occasionally got short shrift in previous seasons, become more sympathetic and well-drawn, while newer additions to the cast like James Wolk, Linda Cardenelli and Harry Hamlin swiftly felt like part of the furniture. And of course, the show's stalwarts, in Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss and, increasingly, Kiernan Shipka, continued to smash it out of the park week on week. "Mad Men" is unique among the great TV dramas in that it riffs less on movies and other TV than on classic American literature (Philip Roth, Richard Yates, even Raymond Carver), and as it approaches its end game, it feels more and more like the TV version of the Great American Novel.
Best Episode: This finale "In Care Of," which tied up every strand of the season into an immensely rewarding, moving and earth-shaking conclusion.
We'd like to shout at you for not watching "Enlightened," Mike White's astonishingly good comedy-drama, which was cancelled soon after finishing its second, little-watched season. But we have to confess that we weren't watching it either -- it passed us by on initial airing, and we only caught up with it while preparing for this piece. We needn't feel all that badly about it -- HBO never quite worked out the angle on how to sell it, and most critics took a little time to warm up to the show, which was never the most immediately lovable of series. But boy, we wish we'd got on the train earlier, because "Enlightened" was one of the most impressive, complex and fascinating extended character studies that we've ever seen on television. The show, from "Freaks & Geeks" and "The Good Girl" writer White, focuses on Amy Jellicoe, an executive who returns to work after a nervous breakdown and subsequent rehab determined to create a better world for herself and for others. In the second season, it became a sort of whistleblower thriller, with Jellicoe teaming up with co-workers and L.A. Times journalist Jeff (Dermot Mulroney) to expose corruption within her workplace. But any plot took a backseat to its portrait of its central character, one not quite like any other on television. To put it simply, Amy is a terrible person, self-centered and manipulative. And yet White's compassionate writing and Dern's hall-of-fame performance meant that while you might occasionally find her actions excruciating, she was entirely plausible, sympathetic and even lovable (which extended to every other character, from White's lonely, lovelorn co-worker to a career-reviving performance from Luke Wilson as Amy's substance-abusing ex-husband). Often deeply, deeply funny while secretly proving to be incredibly moving, and featuring the best roster of directors on TV (Todd Haynes, James Bobin and David Michod joined White and Nicole Holofcener for season two, while Miguel Arteta, Jonathan Demme and Phil Morrison had worked on the first run), it was an absolute gem throughout, and the only reason not to mourn its premature cancellation was that it found pretty much a perfect ending.
Best Episode: "Higher Power," which broke with the format to follow Luke Wilson's Levi to the Hawaiian treatment center that caused his ex-wife's rebirth.
On paper, it was hard to think of something less enticing than the idea of a Hannibal Lecter TV series. The character had long since become a punchline after three sub-standard follow-ups to "Silence Of The Lambs," and it seemed like the kind of dim, derivative cash-in and another serial killer show on TV schedules that are already overstuffed with them. The casting was strong, and creator Bryan Fuller gave some confidence (though we've never really loved any of his previous shows), but the signs were that it could end up being eminently skippable. How wrong we were: "Hannibal" started impressively, and only became more and more fascinating and powerful as it went on, ending its first season as the best network TV drama in years. Fuller found a home for his heightened aesthetic (brought to life by David Slade in the pilot, and kept up by directors including John Dahl and, in his directorial debut, Tarantino/Del Toro DoP Guillermo Navvaro) with the disgustingly beautiful murder tableaus and styilized reconstructions making it among TV's most distinctive-looking shows. But it's not murder porn either; it's the sheer psychological depth that sets "Hannibal" not so much leagues as an entire ocean above the CSIs and NCISs of the world. The killings are horrifying in the truest sense of the world (hammered home by the uneasy, Ben Wheatley-ish sound design that makes the show as absorbing as it is difficult to watch), and the toll of investigating and committing murder hangs heavy over the series, which has painted as effective a picture of mental illness as we've ever seen on television, let alone on a network, thanks to the fine work of Hugh Dancy. It's an incredibly effective antidote to the countless dead bodies we see callously quipped over on other shows. And we haven't even mentioned Hannibal himself yet: Mads Mikkelsen is perfectly cast, wiping away memories of Brian Cox and Anthony Hopkins within a few episodes, expertly playing with the audience's sympathies while still making Lecter as terrifying as he's ever been. It's not for those with weak stomachs -- Fuller & co have found inventive new ways to make us feel nauseous -- but if you can take it, it's a near-miraculous piece of television, and one that we hope sticks around for a long time.
Best Episode: "Coquilles," which wraps Graham's increasing instability, and the troubles of the wife (Gina Torres) of Jack Crawford (Laurence Fishburne), into the investigation of a man who's gruesomely turning his victims into angels.
With almost a year gone since its third season began, and the show's semi-titular creator taking a break to the extent that the fourth won't begin airing until next summer, it feels like there's a major "Louie" void in our lives. And that's in part because, while the most recent run of the show could be occasionally uneven, and not always committed to actually being funny (quite deliberately), it remains some of the most fascinating, exhilarating and oddly moving television around. Season three was the year that Louis C.K. both moved towards a slightly more serialized approach to the show, with two recurring plotlines that took up about half the season between them (and a wider theme that ran throughout), and continued to push his formally experimental side. If you've never seen the show, know that "Louie" sees C.K. as a filmmaker first, and comic second, and every episode of the show is at least one compelling and, increasingly, beautifully made, short film. The great thrill of the show is that you never know what you're going to get week on week: we went from a hilariously profane blind date with Melissa "Fuckin' Obama" Leo to an elegiac Miami-set episode where Louie falls in love with a guy, to a kind of deconstruction of the manic pixie dream girl rom-com with Parker Posey, to the show's trilogy about Louie being courted to take over David Letterman's show (complete with a perfect guest spot from David Lynch, of all people). No one is moving the half-hour comedy form (it feels odd to call it a sitcom, somehow) further forward than Louie, and as a result, the wait for the next season feels almost endless.
Best Episode: So many to choose from, but Louie's extraordinary flight by speedboat at the end of "Dad" might just edge it over the "Late Show" trilogy (which, more than anything, made us die to see C.K. return to big-screen filmmaking).
With the walls between film and TV crumbling down every day, it seems fitting that our favorite TV series of the year premiered at the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals, before marking the Sundance Channel's first entry into original series. "Top Of The Lake," created by the great New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion ("The Piano," "Bright Star') with co-writer Gerard Lee, and directed by Campion and Garth Davis, looked on the surface to be another entry into the "The Killing"-type murder-in-a-small-town sub-genre. But while there was a murder of a sort, it took backseat into an investigation of a far deeper kind of corruption. Campion's series begins with Sydney police detective Robin Griffin ("Mad Men" star Elisabeth Moss, phenomenal, and with a decent Kiwi accent, no less) returning home to see her dying mother, only to become involved with a young pregnant girl Tui (Jacqueline Joe), the daughter of local criminal Matt Mitcham (Peter Mullan). While there's a mystery -- who's the father of Tui's baby? -- the show rarely delves into procedural elements, instead fleshing out the world of Laketop with low-life locals, shifty cops and a woman's commune led by the charismatic, offbeat American GJ (Holly Hunter, channeling Campion herself). At its heart, "Top Of The Lake" is about the treatment of women at the hands of men, and that the scars that can leave. Which perhaps makes the series heavier than we intend; it can be bleak, certainly, but it was grippingly watchable throughout its seven-episode run, with flecks of dark humor, romance and, above all, incredibly smart writing and direction. Every performer, from the familiar names to newcomers, was fantastic too (Mullan perhaps taking the honors as a deeply well-rounded and complex monster). The show was a limited-run one-off, as far as we know, so we're unlikely to see another series or a sequel. But given that it might have been the masterpiece of one of our finest filmmakers, we'll happily settle for what we got.
Best Episode: To be honest, the series feels like it was intended to be seen as one long seven-hour viewing experience, and that's what we'd recommend. Take a couple of breaks, or watch it over a few nights, but it's best to absorb the show in a short space of time.
Honorable Mentions: With all the will in the world, there's simply too much great TV to catch up with everything, so all of the above should be taken with the caveat that we have a few gaps in our viewing. The most prominent is "Rectify," a slow-burning Sundance Channel show from Ray McKinnon that, by all accounts, had an excellent first season. Rest assured, we'll be catching up with it soon, but if you did see it, let us know your thoughts in the comments section.
Otherwise, we never quite picked up with the second season of "Scandal," which we're told is ludicrous amounts of silly, soapy fun, anchored by a great performance from Kerry Washington. We're also behind on "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" and never got around to "Bunheads," though have heard great things about both. We believe that "Vikings" is meant to be a lot of fun, and a cut above other similar historical dramas, and the same was apparently true of the just-completed "Spartacus" too.
As for the shows that we have seen, but didn't quite make the cut, "Boardwalk Empire" continued to improve season-on-season thanks to a great guest villain turn by Bobby Cannavale, and with an impressive roster of actors joining the fourth series, we wouldn't be surprised if it cracked the list by next year. "Veep" also came on great guns with its second season and, if it isn't quite up there with "The Thick Of It" still, is getting awfully close. Speaking of, Armando Iannucci's other series closed up its run last fall with a strong series of episodes, while on a sort-of-related note, HBO's other Sunday night comedy, "Family Tree," might only be halfway through its run, but it's the best thing Christopher Guest has done since at least "Best In Show," anchored by a great turn by Chris O'Dowd.
Beyond that, "Homeland" took a bit of a dip in its second season, but remains watchable and well-acted, while "The Good Wife" is still one of the most consistently strong dramas around. "Fringe" ended its run with a curious, but ever-imaginative series, and newcomer "Orphan Black" proved to be a compelling new slice of sci-fi. "Arrested Development" returned, and while not up there with its previous seasons, was often as funny as anything else on TV, while cable comedies like "Children's Hospital," "Key & Peele," "Comedy Bang Bang," "Inside Amy Schumer" and "Nathan For You" were all terrific. As we mentioned above, "Ben & Kate" grew more and more promising with every episode, but was cut down in its prime.
Finally, internationally speaking, there were a few strong British imports in "Utopia," "Broadchurch," "The Hour" and "Ripper Street," while French series "The Returned" and Danish shows "Borgen" and "The Bridge" all won new fans. Anything else we've missed that you think deserves mention? Let us know in the comments section.
Theresa J | August 19, 2014 9:58 AM
Game of Thrones! I'm addicted!
Haris Khan | July 1, 2014 5:07 AM
Game of thrones and Sherlock . these 2 are simply awesome.
em | May 18, 2014 6:04 AM
top of the lake? what are you snuffing dude....
123 | April 30, 2014 2:07 PM
Parks and Rec was the only decent show on this godawful pathetic excuse for a list
and Lost went longer than it's natural lifespan????? STFU you clueless moron
stick with breaking bore and all the other terrible crap you listed
randhir gunpath | April 7, 2014 10:53 AM
supernatural has now become so monotonous, it was once an amazing show, now they do the most stupid of things, its like one big circle. plz review, coz it really ain't worth watching anymore.
cara | March 1, 2014 12:54 AM
One of the best tv lists I have yet to find for this years shows. My list: 1. Top of the Lake 2. Rectify 3. Homeland 4. Game of Thrones 5. Breaking Bad 6. True Detective. For more light hearted or just ok viewing: 1. Orange is the New Black 2. New Girl 3. Sons of Anarchy 4. House of Cards .. Like the writer states, it is always subjective. I thought the Walking Dead was terrible acting and a bit of a bore. While, Top of the Lake, Rectify, Homeland, Game of Thrones, etc had me obsessed with wanting more! Must check some others on the list..
rickey | February 21, 2014 11:39 AM
Supernatural is easy top 5. Only supernatural tv show ever, where most of the seasons themes are REALISTIC! And not some bs fairytales. But even that is spinning offroad. How can all the Angels falling be taken kind of lightly?
Merona | January 29, 2014 2:36 AM
Sherlock. Game of Thrones. The Fosters.
Hannah | January 26, 2014 8:49 AM
The Walking Dead is brilliant, the new show Masters of Sex is also brilliant. I loved Vikings and can't wait for series two. GOT, Dexter and Breaking Bad are possibly the best three programmes to have ever been created! No list is complete without Suits, Supernatural, Downton Abbey, Homeland and Revenge. This year i'm looking forward to Black Sails and Mob City.
tuenti | January 16, 2014 4:14 PM
1-Hell on wheels 2-Breaking Bad 3-Mad Men 5-The Borgen
That's my list. No doubt about hell on wheels.
Mason | January 13, 2014 1:42 AM
Why is Sherlock not on this list. Sherlock is arguably the best crime drama tv series after season 3. The actors and the story plot are just brilliant and getting more and more attention every year
Jerry | January 11, 2014 2:39 AM
to say any ONE of those shows is better than breaking bad is to admit that you are a mental deficient
Dave | January 6, 2014 11:41 PM
.... BREAKING BAD is the best TV show EVER....the acting and the writing are simply beyond anything else ever done.. Never in my life have I seen an ensemble of characters that I cared more about. Every single episode left you wanting more. It was the best time I've ever spent in front of a screen. I laughed, I cried and caught myself saying "wow" more than once.
Trent | December 25, 2013 3:26 AM
This is the worst god damn list ive ever seen, wtf
Ahmad | December 22, 2013 8:19 AM
Out of those 15, I've only seen Game of Thrones, and it's one of the best TV shows I've ever watched.
alex | December 17, 2013 1:18 AM
Homeland kinda overhyped show. Period. Overacting crap.
Spartacus and Game of thrones are the greatest TV shows ever. Breaking bad my arse.. never watch stupid shows.
alex | December 17, 2013 1:14 AM
House of cards is utter crap. I watched BBC house of cards..Acting in that was awsome. Spacey is bad casting. He do not fit at all. He is wooden in this role
alan | December 16, 2013 9:59 PM
Breaking bad is the best show ever aired and any list that can place it eighth is just a joke. Dont all yell at once? If all are yelling then you know yourself you were wrong to place it eighth I mean not even top 5. What a joke. I came looking for something good to watch but who could trust this dribble of a list.
Anomynous | November 25, 2013 12:56 PM
Mad Dogs...
nila sizan | November 11, 2013 11:42 AM
The idea that the American version of 'house of cards' improved upon the original BBC series is almost laughable. Though clearly an American wrote that comment, and one devoid of any knowledge of superlative acting. The BBC series actually was as much satirical, ironic, and highly comedic..whilst typically the American version was mundane, dry and had some of the worst acting I have ever seen on a TV series, including Spacey who simply never measured up to the part. But the real problem with the American version was even more obvious the writing was atrocious. Take my advice watch the original, and note how the European theatrical history simply jumped out of the TV. Americans seem to adore bad acting, unlike in Europe, where fame, celebrity, and good looks are not required, but merely the skill in acting a part.....
Chad | October 10, 2013 5:16 PM
I forgot Hannibal, it should be in the upper part of my list, moving out Da Vinci's Demons.
Chad | October 10, 2013 5:12 PM
Couldn't put together a worse list. lol. You have crappy taste.
1. The Walking Dead
2. Game of Thrones
3. Doctor Who
4. Whitechapel
5. Ripper Street
6. Being Human (UK)
7. Dexter
8. Spartacus: War of the Damned
9. Supernatural
10. Da Vinci's Demons
...haven't watched Breaking Bad yet, but will soon, so don't knock me for not listing it. I'm sure it would make my list had I seen it.
kaos | October 6, 2013 7:06 PM
how can you not even mention the norwegian hit The halfbrother - it has won all sorts of awards from silver at Seoul International Drama Awards - beating "orphan black"
jack mioff | September 29, 2013 4:12 PM
lmao, what the hell is this?
are you living under a rock?
game of thrones, best tv show right now!
breaking bad... and all the rest!
top of the lake #1 really, where does it come from, never of it, ask people around if it's that great... not!
sir, please! step away from the keyboard...
green | September 29, 2013 1:44 AM
Bullshit. Game of Thrones - 1, Breaking Bad -2. Then everything else :)
procrastinator | September 12, 2013 8:06 PM
Shame on you all for no Top Boy, Carnivale, or Adventure Time. Seriously.
Tony | September 11, 2013 7:19 PM
What about The Following?
Anomynous | September 5, 2013 8:15 AM
What about Pretty little liars, Teen wolf, The Vampire diaries, Glee?! like what
CERG | August 27, 2013 8:14 PM
I haven't seen many of those listed...some can't analyze from a holistic perspective, but I liked the Americans, just finished 1st season of "Orange is the new Black" which was fun..., diehard Suits fan, however beginning of much anticipated 3rd is fading fast. The show I really enjoyed, especially from the lead male actor standpoint, is RECTIFY. A really in-depth character study, with a hint of mystery to it...mostly a drama in the end. Plot builds slowly, and so does the intrigue...the prisoner cell clips are phenomenal.
Jake | August 25, 2013 8:42 AM
Where is Sons of Anarchy??? Best show ever after Breaking Bad and Justified!
James | August 22, 2013 8:03 PM
Top Of The Lake? Top Of The Lake? COME ON!!!! how about The Fall or Broadchurch
Hanna | August 16, 2013 9:13 PM
....."and newcomer "Orphan Black" proved to be a compelling new slice of sci-fi" Sci-fi ????? Did you watch it on drugs?
Dave | August 9, 2013 9:10 AM
It was mentioned but advise a watch. Utopia, I thought, was fantastic. The story, acting and visuals are quite something. I was truly amazed by Hannibal. The juxtaposition of some of the most beautifully shot yet terrifyingly graphic scenes made this my pick of the year so far. I love GoT but Hannibal is something completely different and inventive. Not for the feint hearted....
Jen | August 3, 2013 3:50 PM
Season 3 of Walking Dead was amazing.
Johan | August 2, 2013 2:23 PM
No Bates Motel but there's New Girl? Stupid, not so credible list.
Sheila | August 2, 2013 12:26 AM
Am I the only one that thinks that Treme is a great show?
- | July 31, 2013 2:30 PM
Having watched a bit more TV since I last commented, mine would be
1) Breaking Bad - I don't think I need to say much here, seeing as 99% of the internet seems to be in love with this show. I had some problems with some of it feeling slightly contrived (if I had to single out one episode to demonstrate this, it would be Dead Freight) but it was so entertaining those only amount to niggles.
2) Mad Men - Even though I prefer Mad Men in general to BB, I don't think there's much disagreement that this was its weakest season. It still picked up later on though, and now that it's over I think the latter half more than made up for the slow start. The finale was amazing, and the season as a whole was easily the most important in terms of plot since season 3.
3) The Americans
4) Boardwalk Empire - Had what is probably the show's best episode to date (the penultimate one, can't remember the name), even if there was the odd boring subplot, e.g. Margaret and Gillian. I really enjoyed how they fleshed out Richard Harrow.
5) Game of Thrones - I seem to be in the minority in thinking this was the show's weakest season. I think people are just remembering the red wedding, which is understandable because it's one of the most well-executed scenes I've ever seen on television, but the season as a whole wasn't that great to me. In some episodes (the most obvious example being 'The Bear and the Maiden Fair'), it kind of felt like they threw in some really memorable scenes at the end to distract colour people's impressions of otherwise pretty mediocre episodes.
6) Homeland - In spite of its obvious flaws, I still found it highly watchable this season. There were very few shows I found more entertaining.
7) Hannibal
8) House of Cards - Great performances, and quite a fun show, even though the cynicism turns Frank Underwood into a villain of almost cartoonish proportions toward the end. I don't think it's good enough to have been nominated for an Emmy, though.
9) The Newsroom - This is a really, *really* distant 9th, and it's the only one on the list that I don't at least like.
I haven't finished watching Walking Dead season 3 or Top of the Lake yet.
Mr Flow | July 29, 2013 2:40 PM
this is my list: Braking Bad, The Walking Death, Game of Thrones, True Blod and Boardwalk Empire,, all of which are the first place, I have no specific order.
tttt | July 19, 2013 12:47 PM
where is arrow,spartacus,walking dead,supernatural and so on and on,Who wrote this stupid list.
tttt | July 19, 2013 12:45 PM
this list is for crap...the worst shows ever
markus | July 15, 2013 4:17 AM
Walking Dead, Supernatural, The Grimm The BEST! Hate too much talk like hannibal, madmen, girls, justified etc.. crap they bore me.
Lily | July 9, 2013 7:03 PM
lmao. This is the most ridiculous fangirl list I have ever seen. Top of The Lake is a boring sluggish pretend-to-be-deep-but-really-pretentious Forbrydelsen/Killing knockoff. Rectify and Orphan Black in "honorable mentions"?! When Mad Men, New Girl and Louie are in the list? ON TOP of House of Cards? Are you serious?
What about In The Flesh? Not high profile enough?
Theresa | July 8, 2013 7:04 PM
Lol Mad Men is on Season 6, not Season 5.
J Culver | June 30, 2013 11:28 AM
Internationally speaking, I am dumbfounded that you did not even acknowledge the stunning combination of high drama and all out action that is the amazing "Copper". The ensemble is award-winning, and has the most encompassing, jaw-dropping performance by a minor in the body of Kiara Glasco, as Annie Reilly, since Linda Blair in The Exorcist.
Lauren | June 29, 2013 5:44 PM
There's only 5 episodes, but The Fall on BBC Two was one of the best crime dramas I've seen in a long time. I'm a big Hannibal fan and it was right up there next to it for me. All 5 eps are on Netflix, too.
jesus | June 29, 2013 4:36 PM
Adventure Time beats anything on FOX, Breaking Bad has been #1 every years it's been out. Game of Thrones is right after that, HANNIBAL for number one? whoever made this list is mentally unstable..
- | June 29, 2013 12:43 PM
Also, I've only watched up to episode 5 of Hannibal, but it's really not that great, at least from what I've seen. The only thing that's great about it is Mads Mikkelsen's acting (and to a lesser extent Hugh Dancy's)
- | June 29, 2013 11:36 AM
There's no way season 6 of Mad Men was better than season 5 of Breaking Bad, and I happen to think that Mad Men is the overall better show. Mad Men's sixth season didn't get great until the last three or four episodes, whereas season 5 of BB was bloody brilliant all the way through. (although I do have a few nitpicks about believability there, everything is so well done that it's not that big a deal)
I didn't like Thrones as much though. Aside from the Red Wedding, I thought it was kind of below par.
Milo | June 28, 2013 12:53 PM
It's 'Jaime' Lannister, I think, not 'Jamie' :P
JQ | June 28, 2013 1:06 AM
I think The Venture Bros. deserves a place on the list.
JoannieG | June 28, 2013 12:08 AM
Rectify was sheer perfection. Every episode was magnetic, powerful and deeply emotional...still thinking about it long after the final episode aired. Nothing else like it on TV.
Kitty | June 27, 2013 10:29 PM
I wish Deadwood was still around.
Lindsay | June 27, 2013 4:00 PM
Orphan Black is one of the most sophisticated shows in ages and proves that BBC America has real potential for releasing high-quality original programming. And speaking of the BBC, The Hour is the best writing on television and was cut criminally short.
Yellow Jester | June 27, 2013 10:48 AM
Walking Dead?
Christian | June 27, 2013 5:24 AM
wes | June 27, 2013 5:20 AM
But you all seriously need to rewatch and rewatch Arrested Development and reconsider not putting it on this list.
Ugh | June 27, 2013 5:18 AM
Fucking joke that GIRLS was on this list & BOARDWALK EMPIRE is an "honorable mention"
wes | June 27, 2013 5:02 AM
thank you for saying that about Breaking Bad. So overrated. I doubt I'll watch the finale. Season 4 and season 5.1 ruined it all, as far as I'm concerned.
wassup | June 27, 2013 1:17 AM
You're either out of your mind, or you were probably drunk when you wrote this list. I know this is your personal opinion, but seriously, Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad aren't even on the top 5? That's a pretty ridiculous opinion to have.
Nick | June 27, 2013 12:48 AM
Southland belongs on this list, if only for Michael Cudlitz's fantastic performance.
Javier | June 27, 2013 12:11 AM
Have to definitely agree with Chris on Regular Show. And Maron???
adam | June 26, 2013 11:23 PM
Surely this list isn't supposed to be in order ...
Sam | June 26, 2013 9:31 PM
Hannibal and Rectify were by far the best new shows of the season for me. Both beautifully and subtly written and filmed, captivating (Hannibal in a eerie way) shows that left you thinking long after the credits had run. My two most anticipated returning shows are Sherlock and Breaking Bad. I'm far more excited for TV than I am for any upcoming movies these days.
Paul | June 26, 2013 9:03 PM
Rectify was a great show, highly recommended. Hannibal was magnificent. Can't wait for Breaking Bad. However, New Girl over The Fall, Copper, Bates Motel? No way... By the way Bates Motel and Copper were not even in the honorable mention section. What's up with that? Mad Men was a great season this year (still may be the best show overall on TV even though the show just completed its sixth season). And seriously, what about Downton Abbey? Why no love for this amazing show Playlist?
loudrockmusic | June 26, 2013 6:43 PM
The best episodes of season 3 of Bob's Burgers are "The Deepening" (the mechanical shark) and "Wagstaff Broadcast News" (mystery pooper/Li'l Bob)!
Chris | June 26, 2013 6:06 PM
What no Adventure Time with Finn & Jake? That and Regular Show. Veep was fucking brilliant this season and as a fan of In The Thick Of It I wish people would quit comparing the two, it's not close, it's just as good. No love for Person Of Interest? C'mon, that's a great show. No Sherlock? Arrested Development really does deserve to be on this list. I thought in many ways it was much better than the first three seasons. Which I faithfully watched the first time around. Family Tree should be in the top 10.
Other than that, good list. Don't get the love affair with Girls though.
Matt | June 26, 2013 5:29 PM
Fairly decent list, though you missed "Orphan Black."
Matt | June 26, 2013 5:28 PM
Fairly decent list, though you missed "Orphan Black."
Matt | June 26, 2013 5:28 PM
Fairly decent list, though you missed "Orphan Black."
Judy | June 26, 2013 5:16 PM
From the Mad Men section: "Even lower-key plot-wise than season four, season five saw fans swapping conspiracy theories for weeks."
You meant "Even lower-key plot-wise than season FIVE, season SIX saw fans swapping conspiracy theories for weeks."
This was season six.
AJ | June 26, 2013 5:05 PM
Happy Endings
Leni | June 26, 2013 4:22 PM
I was with you until I realized Homeland wasn't included at all. It would be hard to top that first season, but the first five episodes or so had twists that many people thought would be the endgame for the series, and left viewers wondering what could possibly happen next. I'm glad Parks and Rec is included though, I agree with that for sure.
Dan S | June 26, 2013 4:14 PM
"Girls" should not be on this list. Season 2 may be the winner for most depressing "comedy" series ever. Christopher Guest's "Family Tree" is a much better show. And no mention of Jonathan Nolan's "Person of Interest?"
h8r | June 26, 2013 3:51 PM
TOP OF THE LAKE is trash. I can't believe you suggest viewers watch it in a full 7-hour marathon when literally every single person that tried to watch it couldn't even finish one full episode without falling asleep or changing the channel.


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This has proved so very exciting a week, by our geriatric standards, that I couldn't leave you out of it altogether.
Today we should have Archie's and Mungo's GCSE results.
Today, too, my husband and Lizzie and I will go to Strathardle. The weather is glum.
That's nothing. On Tuesday, or some such day, Helen, on the slopes of Mount Pelion, recently returned from a family holiday in the Balkans, was badly bitten by a dog, plunging me, at least, into a maelstrom of worry about rabies. There is some in northern Greece, not much.
...Here are Archie's results: an A* in English Literature, three A's, in his A-Level subjects, History, Spanish and English; the rest B's except for Chemistry which was a C. Everybody is delighted. Mungo's results, from a different board, are unknown as yet.
Anyway, rabies. The dog's owners were somehow located and visited. Its documentation including rabies vaccine looked good, and Helen stopped worrying, or professed to. The owners said it had never behaved like that before, which was distinctly worrying rather than otherwise, as "unprovoked aggression" is often the first symptom of rabies a dog presents. I keep begging her, by email and telephone, to go back and SEE the dog at the weekend. If it was rabid on Tuesday, it's not going to get better any time soon. My husband fears that Helen is being fobbed off by Greek peasants anxious about liability. Helen says they're really nice.
An awful fuss about a very slim possibility of danger. But rabies can be stopped if treated with a series of injections before symptoms develop (=before the virus reaches the central nervous system). After that, there is little or no hope and death is extremely unpleasant.
Knitting: I took the Unst Bridal Shawl along to my husband's dental appt yesterday. I've left it at the end of an edging repeat, so easy to resume, and will now put it away altogether until Rames&Yowes are finished. Lace knitting is infinitely soothing, and I think the reason may be that there is so much of it that you simply can't worry about finishing. You just sit there and knit.
Rams&Yowes progresses well, more or less. But garter stitch is the knitter's absolute test, and I'm not really terribly good at it. More than that, I have never mastered the art of recovering a dropped stitch, or laddering back to a split one. I've got one of those two-headed crochet hooks. I know what the problem is. But I can't do it.
So, off we go into the Scottish gloom. See you on Monday, insh'Allah.


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The Sonoma County sheriff's deputy who shot and killed a 13-year-old boy outside Santa Rosa after mistaking the youth's toy gun for a real rifle was expected to return to work this week, according to a published report.
Erick Gelhaus has been on leave since the Oct. 22 shooting of Andy Lopez Cruz, who was carrying a replica AK-47 pellet gun near his home.
Gelhaus went through a mental health screening and is returning to desk duty, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported. The sheriff's office did not return calls from The Chronicle seeking comment.
Critics of Gelhaus, outraged that the deputy will be back on the job, are planning to march in protest Tuesday evening. They said the department should wait until outside investigations of the incident by Santa Rosa police and the county district attorney's office are complete.
"To return Gelhaus to work is such an insult to the community," said Jonathan Melrod, one of the protest organizers. "Many people view this as salt in the wound because of the nature of what happened, the killing of a child."
Andy's family has filed a federal lawsuit alleging civil rights violations.
Santa Rosa police officials said Gelhaus ordered Andy to drop the rifle, which did not have the orange tip that toy guns are required to have under federal law. Andy did not drop the gun, police said, and when he turned toward the officers, Gelhaus fired eight times, fearing for his life.
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Reclaiming The Counter-Cultural Christian Message of Marriage
The following is an older blog post that reworked for an essay series on same-sex marriage. For the last few years, GLAD Alliance (Gay, Lesbian and Affirming Disciples) have sponsored an Easter writing project. I took part in it this year and what I wrote appeared on the GLAD blog on May 1.
16 But Ruth replied, "Don't urge me to abandon you, to turn back from following after you. Wherever you go, I will go; and wherever you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God. 17 Wherever you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord do this to me and more so if even death separates me from you." 18 When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped speaking to her about it.
Ruth 1:16-18 Common English Bible
On my wedding day in 2007, we had a reception for family and friends at our house. I remember Daniel and I were getting things ready for the event. Daniel kind of gave me an order to get something done. I looked over to a friend who smiled and said, "you're stuck with him now."
A few years later, we had another ceremony with family in Western Minnesota. A month earlier, same-sex marriage became legal in Minnesota and like a lot of my friends who were coupled, we had a small ceremony. It was at this event that we signed our marriage licenses. If I wasn't stuck with Daniel before, I now had a state document proving that we were truly stuck.
The movement for same-sex marriage has been in high gear since the Supreme Court rulings in 2013. More and more challenges in different states mean that at some point in the near future, same-sex marriage could be the law of the land.
As the push for legal recognition continues, the church is left wondering why should we care about this issue. In the debate over same sex marriage, there has been a lot of talk about the weakening of marriage or about the freedom to marry, but there has been little talk of what marriage does to the people in question, or at least what it should do. Read More…
Let's Talk About Sex?
A few months ago, Methodist pastor and blogger Allan Bevere wanted my viewpoint on the argument that the acceptance of same-sex marriage will lead to polyandrous relationships. (Allan doesn't share that view, but is trying to answer that question.)
I have to admit that I haven't answered Allan's question yet.
It's not for lack of trying. I have thought about it. But I haven't been able to come up with an answer that says same-sex marriage is okay and polyandrous relationship aren't- at least with what society and mainline churches have used as an argument.
The view that I have encountered from liberal Christians and liberal society as a whole is centered on a sense of equality. As long as other people don't bother us, then they are free to do what they want. Being a soft libertarian, I think that's the way I want to go. Let people be.
But if that's my answer, then I could also use that argument to support three people getting married as much as I could two members of the same sex.
The problem with the libertarian/equality viewpoint is that it can treat all forms of sexuality as equal if they don't harm people.
Which is why I haven't answered Allan yet. I think the answer I could give Allan would come up short. Read More…
Sermon: "Ain't No Need to Worry"
Romans 8:26-39
Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time
July 27, 2014
First Christian Church
Mahtomedi, MN
Listen to: Ain't No Need to Worry | Sermons from FCC- St. Paul.
About fifteen years ago, I was down in Louisiana for my uncle Joe's 80th birthday party. I remember sitting in the dining room of Uncle Joe's house when my cousin, Joe's oldest son also named Joe and his wife Barabra got out something they had been working on for years: the family geneology. The two looked through court records and we able to patch together the story of the Sanders family. They went to county courthouses throughout the South and you see in this family tree how my ancestors made their way to Louisiana from South Carolina.
If know American history, then you know why South Carolina is the starting point for me and countless millions of African Americans. South Carolina was known for its slave markets, where farmers would purchase slaves who came off the boat from their African homes. I don't know this for certain, but I can imagine part of the journey of my family from South Carolina to Georgia, then Mississippi and finally Louisiana could have been because my ancestors were bought and sold to different plantations over the years.
The look into my past brings up a few conflicting emotions. There is something cool about seeing all the generations who came before you. I could see that I belonged to the Sanders family. But it also brought some sadness and unpleasant feelings because those many of ancestors were treated as nothing more than property; a commodity to be bought and sold. We were stripped of our heritage and given Christian names including my own last name. More than likely we were given the name Sanders because it was the name of some plantation owner.
Maybe it was because of that earlier history that my mother made sure that I learned about African American history as I grew up. I remember reading books about famous African Americans, inventors, doctors and the like. I remember in elementary school that we had days were we had to dress up as a famous person. In fifth grade and sixth grade I dressed up as the inventor Elijah McCoy and Dr. Charles Drew, the discovery of plasma. Mom wanted me to remember that African Americans were more than just slaves; we were survivors, acheivers. I was told I belonged to a people with a rich heritage.
Today's passage in Romans is one where Paul is excited. He tells the church at Rome about the wonders of belonging to God. We had a God that prays for us, taking our grunts and sighs to heart. We have a good that is with us not only in the good times, but in the bad times as well. When Paul tell the Romans that " that God works all things together for good for the ones who love God," he isn't trying to be glib about tragedy. Paul is telling us that even when the unthinkable happens, God is with us. We belong to God and while evil is around now, it will never, ever have the last word.
Paul ends this passage with two wonderful sentences telling the Romans and us that nothing, nothing can separate us from God's love. Paul says, "I'm convinced that nothing can separate us from God's love in Christ Jesus our Lord: not death or life, not angels or rulers, not present things or future things, not powers or height or depth, or any other thing that is created." We are loved by God, no matter what.
Paul's message was one of hope to the Roman church. No matter how bad it seemed, no matter who you are, no matter how much money you have in the bank, you matter to God; you belong.
The notion of belonging to something bigger than you seems even more important than ever. We live in a time where we are supposed to be liberated from, well everything. Whereas in the past, there were organizations like the Elks that helped define themselves in community, we are more likely to go it alone. On the radio recently, there was a segment of a program that was devoted to those parents who are dealing with their children living under their roof again after college. My husband Daniel wondered why this was a problem. In our past, family took care of each other, with several generations living under one roof.
The role of the church in this individualistic era is to tell people, all people that they belong to God. There is a world where people need to know that they are loved by God. That is what this congregation, every congregation is called to do. We are called to welcome people, no matter who they are.
This passage in Romans reminds me of baptism. We know that baptism is about the washing of our sins, but it is also about a promise; that we belong to God. In traditions that do infant baptisms, you might find the baptismal font just as you enter the sanctuary. It's a reminder that baptism is what makes us familiy.
As I've said before, I was the Associate at First Christian Church in Minneapolis. These days they worship at the Springhouse Ministry Center in Minneapolis. SpringHouse is the collaboration of three congregations under one roof. First Christian shares the building with Salem Lutheran and Lyndale United Church of Christ. The old church building that was Salem's was gutted and redsigned to include three sanctaries. In the fellowship space between two sanctuaries is a combination baptistry and baptismal font. Whenever someone from any of the three congregations is baptized, all the members of all three churches meet and begin their services with this baptism. It is a powerful reminder that we belong to something, someone bigger than ourselves.
This past week, our church was the focus of a special concert given by our own Luke Swanger and his friend Zach Peterson. About sixty people came to this place to hear wonderful music of piano and violin. We raised money for the Hope for the Journey Family Shelter in Oakdale. I think it was a great event. We were all excited about this because it was a way of telling people we live in this area. I think people knew as they entered our doors that we welcomed them and showed God's love in our actions.
Church is not about going to a place to give money and see a performance. No, it is a place where we are reminded that we are loved by God and where we learn how we belong and how we can tell others in word and deed that they are loved by God.
I will remember my mom's dillegence in helping me know that I belonged to a people of survivors. My ancestors might have been told they belonged to the slavemaster, but they knew who they were and whose they were.
The title of this sermon is taken from a 1987 song by the gospel group from Detroit, the Winans. They sang this song with fellow Detroiter Anita Baker. The song talks about how trouble will pass and while God isn't mentioned, we do know that we have someone on our side that will get us through the hard times. I wanted to share some of the lyrics:
Ain't no need to worrying
What the night is gonna bring
Because it will be all over in the morning
Ain't no need to worrying
What the night is gonna bring
Because it will be all over in the morning
There's a feel of nightfall
When darkness comes
And covers all of the day
Sometimes we feel pain
But there are some things
That we can change, just pray
Ain't no need to worrying
What the night is gonna bring
Because it will be all over in the morning
You belong. I belong. We belong. Don't ever forget that. Thanks be to God. Amen.
Repost: Saving Liberal Christianity
The following is a post written in 2012.
On the heels of what I wrote late last week on the pitfalls of Progressive Christianity, there has been a flurry of articles on the future of liberal Christianity. I want to start off with a piece by Allan Bevere who wrote the following last Friday:
In recent years evangelical Protestantism has been going through a soul searching, questioning some of its cherished political and hermeneutical positions that have become so intertwined with evangelicalism. An increasing number of evangelicals are re-evaluating some of their "sacred" views on Scripture and science and politics. I think that has been a good thing. But I must say, I have not seen that same kind of soul searching among mainline Protestants. It cannot hurt to wonder if we always have it right. It cannot be a bad thing to remember that perhaps our views are not always biblical, but rather the opposite side of the same modern coin we share with those who are evangelical. Perhaps Dennis and John are beginning an important self-critical conversation that we mainliners need to have. If this is the start, I welcome it.After all, the unexamined life, politic, and theology is not worth embracing… and it's not good for the soul… or the church either. An adjective is meant to describe a noun, not get in the way.
Traditional believers, both Protestant and Catholic, have not necessarily thrived in this environment. The most successful Christian bodies have often been politically conservative but theologically shallow, preaching a gospel of health and wealth rather than the full New Testament message.But if conservative Christianity has often been compromised, liberal Christianity has simply collapsed. Practically every denomination — Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian — that has tried to adapt itself to contemporary liberal values has seen an Episcopal-style plunge in church attendance. Within the Catholic Church, too, the most progressive-minded religious orders have often failed to generate the vocations necessary to sustain themselves.
Both religious and secular liberals have been loath to recognize this crisis. Leaders of liberal churches have alternated between a Monty Python-esque "it's just a flesh wound!" bravado and a weird self-righteousness about their looming extinction. (In a 2006 interview, the Episcopal Church's presiding bishop explained that her communion's members valued "the stewardship of the earth" too highly to reproduce themselves.)
Liberal commentators, meanwhile, consistently hail these forms of Christianity as a model for the future without reckoning with their decline. Few of the outraged critiques of the Vatican's investigation of progressive nuns mentioned the fact that Rome had intervened because otherwise the orders in question were likely to disappear in a generation. Fewer still noted the consequences of this eclipse: Because progressive Catholicism has failed to inspire a new generation of sisters, Catholic hospitals across the country are passing into the hands of more bottom-line-focused administrators, with inevitable consequences for how they serve the poor.
Douthat then expresses what he wishes to see Liberal Christianity do in order to revive itself:
What should be wished for, instead, is that liberal Christianity recovers a religious reason for its own existence. As the liberal Protestant scholar Gary Dorrien has pointed out, the Christianity that animated causes such as the Social Gospel and the civil rights movement was much more dogmatic than present-day liberal faith. Its leaders had a "deep grounding in Bible study, family devotions, personal prayer and worship." They argued for progressive reform in the context of "a personal transcendent God … the divinity of Christ, the need of personal redemption and the importance of Christian missions."
The reaction to Douthat's article among some notable (and not so notable) progressives has been…interesting. In some ways, it reflects exactly some of what Douthat said was of the denial taking place in liberal Christianity: a belief that somewhow we are the church of the future. Church Scholar Diana Butler Bass wrote a response to Douthat's article that basically said that liberal Christians might save Christianity itself. I think in some ways she misinterprets what Douthat is getting at and instead responds with some worn rejoinders to the issue:
…Mr. Douthat insists that any denomination committed to contemporary liberalism will ultimately collapse. According to him, the Episcopal Church and its allegedly trendy faith, a faith that varies from a more worthy form of classical liberalism, is facing imminent death.
His argument, however, is neither particularly original nor true. It follows a thesis first set out in a 1972 book, Why Conservative Churches Are Growing by Dean Kelley. Drawing on Kelley's argument, Douthat believes that in the 1960s liberal Christianity overly accommodated to the culture and loosened its ties to tradition. This rendered the church irrelevant and led to a membership hemorrhage. Over the years, critics of liberal churches used numerical decline not only as a sign of churchgoer dissatisfaction but of divine displeasure. To those who subscribe to Kelley's analysis, liberal Christianity long ago lost its soul–and the state of Protestant denominations is a theological morality tale confirmed by dwindling attendance.
That was 1972. Forty years later, in 2012, liberal churches are not the only ones declining. It is true that progressive religious bodies started to decline in the 1960s. However, conservative denominations are now experiencing the same. For example, the Southern Baptist Convention, one of America's most conservative churches, has for a dozen years struggled with membership loss and overall erosion in programming, staffing, and budgets. Many smaller conservative denominations, such as the Missouri Synod Lutherans, are under pressure by loss. The Roman Catholic Church, a body that has moved in markedly conservative directions and of which Mr. Douthat is a member, is straining as members leave in droves. By 2008, one in ten Americans considered him- or herself a former Roman Catholic. On the surface, Catholic membership numbers seem steady. But this is a function of Catholic immigration from Latin America. If one factors out immigrants, American Catholicism matches the membership decline of any liberal Protestant denomination. Decline is not exclusive to the Episcopal Church, nor to liberal denominations–it is a reality facing the whole of American Christianity.
Douthat points out that the Episcopal Church has declined 23% in the last decade, identifying the loss as a sign of its theological infidelity. In the last decade, however, as conservative denominations lost members, their leaders have not equated the loss with unfaithfulness. Instead, they refer to declines as demographic "blips," waning evangelism, or the impact of secular culture. Membership decline has no inherent theological meaning for either liberals or conservatives. Decline only means, as Gallup pointed out in a just-released survey, that Americans have lost confidence in all forms of institutional religion.
The real question is not "Can liberal Christianity be saved?" The real question is: Can Christianity be saved?
The thing is, I don't think Douthat was saying that conservative churches are doing all that great. In fact, he has been critical of conservative churches as well, not only in this column, but in his most recent book, Bad Religion. Butler Bass then goes into the standard but-the-conservative-churches-are-shrinking-too argument that is true, but covers up the fact that liberal churches are still declining. It's a nice argument and one that makes those of us in declining mainline churches feel good about ourselves and kind of snicker at all those conservative churches. There are problems with conservative Christianity and there is a decline taking place there as well, that doesn't erase the fact that we have a problem that has to be taken care of. My own take at a glance is that the two wings of Christianity are losing members for different reasons. Among conservatives it might be the problem of intolerance towards LGBT persons. Among liberals the problem seems to be that we have compromised the basics of faith (concept of sin, Christ's divinity) and overemphasized social and political issues to the point that people realize that they don't really need to go to church to care about the environment of gay rights.
I think Progressive Christianity has some great strengths. However, we do a crappy job of self-examination. We never allow ourselves to think that somehow what we do and how we do it might possibly be wrong. We are unwilling to think about what we might have done wrong and how to correct for fear that we will become some kind of clone of the Southern Baptists.
Self-examination doesn't mean we have to stop being progressive Christians. It doesn't mean throwing out everything. But it does mean seeing what might be hurting us and putting aside our egos to in order to see if we are the best church we can be. When liberal Christians start doing this, then we can be on the road to saving Liberal Christianity. Until that happens, we will keep whistling down the road towards irrelevance.
Jesus of Suburbia
It's coming up to a year since I've been at First Christian of St. Paul which is in Mahtomedi, MN. One of the things that was kind of hammered home to me in seminary is to learn to do ministry in a certain context. And with this call, context matters, at least to me.
I've shared before that I'm a city kid that grew up with an antipathy towards the 'burbs. So as my mentor Bob Brite has said, "the Holy Spirit, the practical joker that she is" has me preaching at a church in the suburbs.
And I don't think I'm prepared for it.
I've noticed over the year that our seminaries prepare students for one kind of context: cities. The urban context has long been what our seminary education has been based on. I can understand the need to focus on cities; it is where the majority of Americans live. But most seminaries tend to ignore rural contexts and view suburbia with a sense of contempt. In a blog post last year, I shared what an evangelical blogger wrote about the suburbs and it wasn't a love letter. A fellow Disciples pastor has said that the only message we seem to have for suburbanites is how they are bad people for abandoning the city. Surprisingly, people tend to not be crazy to being called sinful because of where they decided to live.
A lot of the Christian antipathy towards suburbia mirrors the larger culture's view of suburbia. Hollywood has long depticted the 'burbs as a place of conformity and blandness. But the thing is, as I said in that posting from 2013, suburban America is far more diverse than we think:
Twenty years later, I don't have the same hatred of suspicion of the burbs. They are still not the places I prefer to live in (thought I did live in the Washington, DC suburbs of Arlington, VA and Silver Spring, MD in the years following college). Part that is because I actually started paying attention to what is going on in the suburbs. Over the years, I've learned that hunger take place in suburbs like Maple Grove, Minnesota, which is just west of Minneapolis. I've learned that domestic violence takes place and that there are shelters for women and children in the tony suburbs of Oakland County north of Detroit. I learned that runaway youth who live in the burbs need a place to stay. I learned that suburban schools are becoming more diverse, handling people from different parts of the world. What I've learned is that the suburbs are not some fascist utopia, but are real places with real problems.
But many Christian leaders seem to choose not to care about what is happening there. Instead, they brand suburban living as unChristian. This is what someone said on the Fare Foreward blog last year:
Yet some forms of cultural resistance should be universal, because some aspects of "normal" life in America are deeply unChristian. Bradley laments that "anti-suburban Christianity" has lead to this kind of legalism. But there are some things deeply unChristian, and deeply counter to even natural virtue, in the suburbs. Will Seath does a good job of laying those out in his article from the winter edition of Fare Forward. Bradley suggests that the anti-suburban Christians advocate for urbanism at the expense of the suburbs. But, as the buzz around Rod Dreher's latest book on moving home, a lot of the anti-suburban sentiment comes from people who support small town living just as much as from those who support city living. And the thing that unites the city and the country against the suburbs is the belief that the suburbs are not, as a matter of fact, ordinary, natural life, but a strange artificial construct that hinders ordinary live and ordinary relationships (see Seath for more).
And this was my response after I picked up my jaw from the floor:
Notice what's being said here. It's not that suburbs aren't optimal to Christian living. No, suburban living is unChristian, it goes against what it means to be a Christian. I haven't read the Will Seath article, but even without reading it the above statement is astounding. What is being said here is that nothing good comes from the suburbs, and that millions of Christians in America are basically committing a grave sin because they chose to live outside the city.
First Christian was in St. Paul until 1996. I'm pretty sure they aren't planning on moving back. So that means learning how to do ministry in the suburbs. Being church here is not the same as in the city or in a small town. But Christ is here. There are needs. Our church is involved in a coalition of suburban churches that staff a homeless shelter for families in the suburban counties east of St. Paul. A large Lutheran church down the road tries to help some of these same people get back on their feet. Suburbanites don't have to go into the big city to do mission, it's here at our doorstep.
I feel that seminary left me unprepared for how to do ministry in this context. It's not urban ministry and it sure isn't rural ministry. But how do learn to do church in this context? How can we preach the good news in words and in deeds in these places far from the urban core?
This is a little tip for seminaries: start thinking about what it means to do mission in the 'burbs. Because an ever larger share of American society is choosing to live there. We have to find ways to help suburbanites join in the mission of God and not feel guilty because they happen to be in the wrong zip code to some urban-centric, snobby Christians.
The Jesus of the City and the small town is also Jesus of suburbia.
Sermon: "All In Due Time"
Matthew 13:24-43
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
July 20, 2014
First Christian Church
Mahotomedi, MN
Listen to: Sermons from FCC- St. Paul.
I'm going to talk about my garden again.
Well, not about the flowers. No, what I am talking about is something that is a constant problem no matter what I do.
I'm talking about weeds.
For some reason, my garden has been targeted by the weeds. I've spent hours pulling them out by their roots, it doesn't work. Both Daniel and I have contacted an old fashioned mixture of vineagar, soap and water that is supposed to kill the weeds and it does just that; that is it kills the plants that it comes in contact with, but it does nothing to the roots which means in a while the weeds come back.
I'm not crazy about using a pesticide like Roundup, but I am become sorely tempted. My fear though is that it could kill the flowers along with the weeds. Sure, I'd get rid of the weeds, but I would also lose the flowers that I've taken years to cultivate. So I'm not going to use Roundup. Maybe.
This Sunday, we find another agricultural parable where Jesus describes the kingdom of God. Last week, we talked about a sower who threw his seeds everywhere, not caring if they took root or not. This Sunday, we find Jesus telling a story about a farmer that planted a field. One evening, an enemy of farmer (farmers have enemies?) sneaks on to the field and plants weeds in the garden. A few weeks later as the wheat that the farmer planted sprouted, everyone saw that weeds were also planted alongside the wheat. The farmer knows who did this; someone that didn't like the farmer and wanted to see him fail. His farmhands, who were distrubed by the weeds marring this harvest, asked if they could go and pull up the weeds by roots.
You would think that the farmer would have said yes and gladly join in. The weeds could choke his crop causing economic upheaval in his household. Instead, he says to leave the weeds where they are,lest they damage the wheat. The farmer tells his farmhands to wait until harvest. The workers can come in and harvest the weeds to throw them in the fire. All in due time, the farmer says.
Jesus later explains this parable to the disciples. The farmer was Jesus and the field represented the world. The enemy was the devil and the weeds are evildoers and all the evils of the world. Jesus tells them that for now the weeds will remain next to the wheat. But the harvest is coming, and when that happens, the workers will gather all the sin in the world, bind it and thrown into the fire. All in due time.
We live in a world filled with weeds and they have been present this week in the news. In the skies over Ukraine, someone shoots a surface to air missle, striking a passenger jet and snuffing out the lives of nearly 300 people, including a number who were going to an International HIV/AIDS conference in Melbourne, Australia. Families around the world are mourning the loss of a loved one and one nation especially, Maylasia, and the national airline are facing a second air tragedy in less than six months.
Palestinians and Israelis are at war again. It began with the death of three Israeli teenagers and then the death of a young Palestinian who was killed in revenge. Now there are rockets striking parts of Israel and the Gaza Strip. Because Gaza is so densley populated, there are more casualities on the Palestinian side, more cries of pain. Any hopes for some kind of peace settlement between the two peoples is shelved, again.
At our southern border, our nation is dealing with a massive influx of children coming from Central American countries where they are threatened. Their arrivals places stress on an already stressed immigration system. It has also for reasons I'm still trying to figure out, has lead to Americans protesting the arrival of these children who are in need of attention and need a place to stay as they are processed through our system.
In North Minneapolis, where I live, there happens to be an increase of crime in the area. The newspaper reports that even if there were a cop on every corner, the violence would not settle unless the community comes together to deal with some of the underlying issues of the perpetrators.
There are weeds everywhere. We try to pull one out and another one takes its place. We keep hoping this government program, that tough on crime measure, this peace agreement and so forth will stamp out the weeds of sinfulness once and for all. It's been a century since the start of World War One. What was it called? The war to end all wars. Yeah, not so much.
If we only look at the weeds, if we seem them as intractible we can easily lose hope. News surfaced this week about a something a Methodist minister did last month. On June 23, Charles Moore, a retired Methodist pastor stepped out of his car in a shopping plaza in Texas, doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire. He died hours later at a hospital in Dallas.
Why would someone set themselves on fire? For Rev. Moore, the purpose was to send a message. In notes left behind he was though his hometown and the nation had not repented of slavery. He expressed anger at the continuing policy in the United Methodist Church towards LGBT people. He was upset that the death penalty was still being used. Rev. Moore saw what he percieved as weeds and was upset that he wasn't able to get rid of them. I don't think suicide is ever a good thing, even in protest. That said, Rev. Moore is not alone in wanted to get rid of the weeds all by ourselves. I know of many people who are passionate about this or that issue and are always upset that the weeds remain.
For whatever reason, Rev. Moore did not have hope that things could change, that they would change. The parable of the weeds is at its heart, a parable of hope. The workers saw the weeds and wanted to get rid of them. The farmer was not so eager, because it wasn't time. The farmer knew the wheat could get tangled and chocked by the weeds. The farmer knew that the weeds ran right through the wheat. He wanted to wait until it was time and then had a plan to get rid of the weeds.
God knows there are weeds in the world. Not only in the big actions taking place in our world, but the weeds that grow up around each and everyone of us. But we shouldn't fear the weeds. We shouldn't think it is up to us to get rid of the weeds. God has a plan. It was the plan that sent God's son to Earth in the form of a baby, who grew up, healed the sick, died on a cross and rose again. In Christ's death and resurrection, sin and death are defeated. It might not look that way on this side of heaven, but at the end of days sin and death will not have the final world. All of the weeds in the world will be taken away and burned.
As Christians, we are called to make disciples and help our sisters and brothers. We are called to tend the garden. There will always be weeds. That doesn't mean we ignore the sin taking place in our world or try to alleviate the pain. We are called to do justice in the world. But that doesn't mean it is up to us to get rid of the weeds. The hope we have in Jesus is that the weeds of war and voilence and sadness won't last forever. They are defeated and just don't know it yet. All in due time.
Maybe this afternoon I will take to the weeds in my garden. They'll come back and I will still look longingly at that bottle of Roundup. All in due time. Thanks be to God. Amen.


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Now, I've said this before, I'll repeat it again -- it's not for me to tell you to be patient, any more than it was for others to counsel patience to African Americans petitioning for equal rights half a century ago.He didn't have to say this, but I'm glad he did. And I really have to wonder whether the people pointing to the speech as a reason to back off from citizen activism to pass these reforms actually bothered to read it.
That's the story of America: of ordinary citizens organizing, agitating and advocating for change; of hope stronger than hate; of love more powerful than any insult or injury; of Americans fighting to build for themselves and their families a nation in which no one is a second-class citizen, in which no one is denied their basic rights, in which all of us are free to live and love as we see fit. (Applause.)
Tonight, somewhere in America, a young person, let's say a young man, will struggle to fall to sleep, wrestling alone with a secret he's held as long as he can remember. Soon, perhaps, he will decide it's time to let that secret out. What happens next depends on him, his family, as well as his friends and his teachers and his community. But it also depends on us -- on the kind of society we engender, the kind of future we build.
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