I see Elephantschild
is also becoming disturbed by the mauve. Mauve makes me angry, I wish I could explain why. It's just so wrong. I would rather have the carpets and drapes at our churches be lime green, than this horrendous excuse of a color.
The sickness between the LCMS and mauve has got to stop. If I have to travel to each and every mauve congregation in this beautiful country of ours, I will do so, with my leatherman and carpet scrapper. But most abhorrent is the website. Sweet, feathery angels, who has cursed us with this plague? On one hand we have "Ablaze!", and on the other we have "Mauve!" You can't set things on fire with mauve. Mauve sits there, like day-old jello, pathetically wimpering.
Did Martin Luther nail a mauve tablecloth to the door? No, because the words "Nail!" and "mauve tablecloth" don't even belong in the same sentence. How could he? How could anyone?
I want to know who is responsible for this. Who is the mauve gatekeeper at LCMS headquarters? Who keeps cranking out this ENDLESS SUPPLY of this color? Talk about stereotypes and Garrison Keillor.....this needs to stop.
Thank you, and I WILL submit this to the Carnival if I have to.
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I think we need an anti-mauve badge, but I'm not so good with graphics...
Oh, damn it all. We just redid our Church office in mauve because it matched the hymnals and seems to be the official color. And now you're telling me it has to be repainted??? :)
Ok, let's get something straight. The hymnals are maroon not mauve. Mauve is a sickly purple color while maroon is a beautiful shade of red. Personally, I am all for the official colors being maroon and white.
Actually, I believe that the official color of LSB is "Sangria." But that's just the inside scoop from book design geeks.
Also, I believe drinking enough Sangria makes mauve moderately tolerable.
That "sangria" color is almost as bad as the mauve. I know the one you are talking about. But maroon itself isn't a bad thing.
It's this off-purple travesty on the website that is creating a gag reflex in me. It does appear to be mauve. I love a good purple, periwinkle, even violet. But someone has to redo the website, it just sucks.
I wrote the LCMS website, and told them they are making various Lutheran bloggers ill, and to remove the mauve.
I pray the person answering the emails has a sense of humor.
The "Anti-Mauve Movement"...sounds like a great name for a group of Confessionals with a warped sense of humor.
I picked up the Lutheran Witness-- and although it's not "mauve" in color...it's "mauve" in character. The Reporter...it's "mauve" in its mood.
Flush the mauve out of the Synod!
Yes, I seem to be gathering the "warped" confessionals! I'm glad I'm not the only one around.
This could be the start of beating the blandness out of Lutheranism!
How about we form an "Anti-Mauve Taskforce." In my opinion, the only thing our Synod needs less than that putrid color is taskforces.
Soooo... dear previous commenters, should we tell Lutheran Lucciola about The Purple Palace?
I vote no, unless it's been recently remodeled out of its infamous color scheme.
(Frightened, Elephantschild covers head with arms and flees the comment page, dodging flying bits of mauve carpeting and mauve-tinted html code...)
:) You know, that dark, dark red of the Lutheran Witness page on the synod site is quite beautiful and very Reformationish.
I'm in.
http://preachrblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/join-movement.html
preacherboy, your page won't come up right now for some reason...you may be working on it at this time, maybe that's why.
I'm glad you joined!! Maybe pastor Jim might also! The funniest would be if pastor Weedon put this on his otherwise neat and clean website!
Ah, so many misunderstandings.
The LCMS logo is NOT mauve. It is burgundy. However, when printed the logo is required to be screened back two steps to complete the look, hence, what you think is Mauve is actually the Synodical purple/burgundy type color simply screened.
You can read all about this at:
http://www.lcms.org/graphics/assets/media/LCMS/GraphicSheet.pdf
And, for the record, the hymnal is BURGUNDY, a deep burgundy, not "mauve."
Oh, I am SO in, it doesn't hurt that McCain is trying to justify that hideous color either ;)
http://lutheranhoosier.blogspot.com/2007/10/viva-la-revolution.html
I'm loving the ribbing Pastor McCain is getting from all angles.....I'm not sure what it's all about yet, but it's pretty funny to watch!!
If it was meant to be burgundy, the HTML code they picked is the wrong code. There is a much better, web-safe burgundy out there. This one is completely wrong. WRONG, I TELL YA!!! ;-)
Oh, I'm not defending it. You just need to know the details of the Synod color scheme so you can wow and amaze people when you talk about the PMS colors being used.
I like a strong burgundy, but when you screen it...there you go. There's your mauve!
More accurately your "revolution" should be, the "Don't screen the burgundy!" movement.
Once you go past a 20% screen, you are definitely in mauve territory.
I would change the campaign to:
"Don't water down the Burgundy!"
Has a certain ring to it, don't you think?
A good web designer could fix this problem, and get rid of the PMS. "Pathetic Mauve Syndrome". There is no reason it had to turn out this bad!
And if it's print too, that's just crazy.
I'll join as long as this only remains a movement and does not become theology...
Jim Roemke said... "How about we form an "Anti-Mauve Taskforce.""
Or would that be a Blue Ribbon Task Force on Anti-Mauvre Relations?
Mr. Saxony, don't worry, I don't have the wish to make it theology!
I also have a "no meetings" rule. No meetings, none at all. Because I know that is a tendency. You won't have any if you join, I promise!
If it's a movement, doesn't it need a capital campaign? I can put a paypal button up or something...
Hoping you don't mind my presumption, but I was both amused and enthused enough to create a Facebook group "The Anti-Mauve Movement". If you have any guidlines or descriptions etc. you'd like for it, do tell. :D
Is it too late for me to join the movement? http://esgetology.blogspot.com/2007/11/join-revolution.html
The Elephant's Child grandfathered me in, though I'm not Lutheran. I'll be posting about it on July 18, 2008 and spreading the Anti-Mauve Movement to Evangelical and Roman Catholic churches as well.
Well, I couldn't leave a comment over at Elephant's Child about this, so I decided to come over here and let you all know I finally posted it on my blogs.
~Kathy
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