{"id":90,"date":"2015-08-03T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/?p=90"},"modified":"2015-07-26T19:34:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T19:34:31","slug":"learning-a-few-things-from-the-separated-brethren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/learning-a-few-things-from-the-separated-brethren\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning a few things from the \u201cseparated brethren\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">There\u2019s a brief blog post over at the Badger Catholic on \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/badgercatholic.blogspot.com\/2015\/07\/how-to-proselytize.html\">How to Proselytize<\/a>\u201d posted by Terrence Berres (author also of <a href=\"http:\/\/berres.blogspot.com\/\">The Provincial Emails<\/a>), and it features a little \u201ctip\u201d from a Mormon. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">In the article at New York Times Magazine, Mario Dias, a man who manages the Mormon training center in Sao Paulo, Brazil, gives this bit \u201cyour appearance matters.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Well, I didn\u2019t say it was a ground-breaking or stunning bit of knowledge, but it\u2019s definitely something we can learn from and take to heart. Appearances still do matter in our highly egalitarian age (just trying wearing a pair of blue jeans to a fancy downtown office or try putting on a shirt, slacks, and a tie in a very casual office and see how much your appearance matters!), and we need to stop lying to ourselves that everyone in our society\/culture has to wear the t-shirt and jeans to feel welcomed, hip, and cool. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">We ought to cast off our silly 1960s-mindset towards casual clothing and revive the practice of (properly) keeping up our appearance, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.adw.org\/2015\/07\/how-do-you-dress-for-church-some-helpful-encouragement-from-a-new-video\/\">especially at Mass<\/a>! (That link is an article by Msgr Pope on how to dress for Mass, which you should read! And maybe consider implementing some of his guidelines\/suggestions&#8230;). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">PS \u2013 I know, I know, Mormons aren\u2019t quite Christians, so they strictly aren\u2019t \u201cseparated brethren,\u201d but I\u2019m trying my best at being \u201cnice\u201d and \u201cecumenical\u201d! <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a brief blog post over at the Badger Catholic on \u201cHow to Proselytize\u201d posted by Terrence Berres (author also of The Provincial Emails), and it features a little \u201ctip\u201d from a Mormon. In the article at New York Times Magazine, Mario Dias, a man who manages the Mormon training center in Sao Paulo, Brazil, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appearances"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6hA2G-1s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}