Punk Rock Church

Last updated on: December 22, 2010 at 1:42 pm by Zack Hunt

Punk Rock Church 2010-12-22T13:42:36-06:00 Zack Hunt

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Are you tired of your boring, old, traditional Baptist church? Are the Pentecostals too establishment for you? Maybe names like Holy Trinity and Grace Community just don’t do it for you?

Then, maybe you should check out Scum of the Earth Church

Christianity gets the punk-rock treatment at this Denver church

By Josiah M. Hesse, Westword

Tucked behind a 7-Eleven and a liquor store, a historic church building rises above the Santa Fe art district. Commissioned in 1881 by former Colorado territorial governor Alexander Hunt, the building was once owned and restored by artist Lonnie Hanzon; you enter through a 300-year-old antique door from Paris, then pass under a cosmically decorated ceiling. The under-the-sea-meets-Mardi Gras-in-space theme continues through the bathrooms and hallways, but it co-exists comfortably with the current occupants. One large room holds scattered rows of chairs and a handful of musical instruments strewn about the far end; two upstairs bedrooms are home to a handful of young crust punks; the garage outside hosts a free bicycle workshop every Sunday afternoon.

This is the new base of the Scum of the Earth Church, a radical group of Christian outcasts hoping their brand of spirituality will find a home here, in a place where they can shed the stereotypes of being both Christians and punk-rockers. In the ten years since its inception, Scum members have congregated in everything from basements to coffeehouses to rented churches to homeless shelters. “Sometimes it’s felt like sleeping on someone’s couch for too long,” says Mike Sares, Scum’s 56-year-old senior pastor. Though he’s comfortable in his church’s new home, which Scum purchased in September 2008, he’s quick to point out that owning a building was never the goal. “The church is the people, not the building,” he says.

***Just to be clear, I think what these guys are doing is great. It may not be my particular taste in style, but the church should celebrate moments like these when she finds ways to reclaim the “unclean” things of the world for use in the kingdom of God.***

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