My church is blessed with a few guys who wear bowties (bowties are cool), and we even have a gentleman who will rock the occasional cravat. It's brilliant. Anyway, when I studied YouTube to learn how to tie my own bowtie, I stumbled into a new world of necktie knots, a world I'm sad to say I'd never heard of. Everyone I knew growing up used the half-windsor (and if they used something else, they called it the half-windsor). I didn't even realize there *were* other ways to tie a tie! Then my friend Vera sent me a knot she thought would look really nice, and the game was on. Not surprisingly, there are hundreds of ways to tie a tie, each one looking just a little different. (There are also hundreds of websites explaining these knots, each one of a varying level of condescension.) While this is not a proper application of 1 Cor 13:11, it did raise an important theological question for me: does wearing a non-standard tie knot inappropriately shift attention from God to the wearer? Like every such question, the answer comes down to the heart. If I intend to attract attention to myself through my knots, then yes, I've got it all wrong. But that doesn't have to be the case, and here's how.
The Trinity KnotThis is the most beautiful tie knot I've ever seen, and it really does look like the old Celtic Trinity. That gives it aesthetics and theological value (after a kind; okay, not really). It takes some work, but like the bowtie is so worth the effort. As a pastor, I'm comfortable wearing this knot anywhere. Let me give credit to ties.com, agreeordie.com (not sure what that title is all about), and shirtsmyway.com for the images, instructions, and videos. The videos are all linked at the bottom of the page for those of you/us who need to see something demonstrated before we can just pick up and go.
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