Resurrection Presbyterian Church and Mr. Aiuto (known as Vito), its pastor, have developed a reputation for attracting the artistic young denizens of the neighborhood to services that combine readings of Psalm 85 with sermons that have a somewhat secular inflection.
Mr. Aiuto, 39, bristles when his church is singled out as particularly cool. “I don’t want this church to be special,” he said over chicken mole at a Williamsburg taqueria. 2010 diesel jeans “I don’t want us to be a church for artists. I want it to be a garden-variety church. What we have to offer people is God.” He paused for a moment. “And I think our music is really Ed hardy T shirts good.”
While only one-quarter of the so-called millennial generation, those born after 1980, attend weekly religious services (according to a study by the Pew Research Center), young pastors like Mr. Aiuto and Jay Bakker, the son of the televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye, as well as groups like the Buddhist-inspired Dharma Punx, are tailoring their messages to young worshipers.
In Mr. Aiuto’s case, this can involve a certain irreverence (he made a rude gesture while illustrating a point about the parable of the prodigal son during a theological question-and-answer session after one recent service) and a dash of self-deprecation. I’m balled over I’m a preacher,” he aforesaid. “Mother Theresa part of Pine Tree State that answered and in some directions still feels that I have nope place holding water and telling others what to answer or to believe.”
diesel jeans adidas Mr. Aiuto grew upwardly inwards Tecumseh, a produce town in Michigan. His category attended an Presbyterian church building occasionally but religion “wasn’t really important,” he said. “It was never talked about at home. It wasn’t something we ever did.” He attended Western Michigan University and decided after taking a few freshman philosophy courses that he was an agnostic. He described himself as a “garden-variety fraternity guy” who experienced a ghostlike rebirth at age twenty, as he birthed an anxiety aggress afterwards acquiring as well many caffein anovulants washed consume with beer during exam clock time.
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