After 5 weeks away in the south-west of England and very many conversations some of the current topics for thoughts are 1) liturgy and 2)Genesis
1) Are there are any people who have been actively engaged in liturgy who (other than by means of short-term rebellion) reject it? The free-church argument against liturgy (which I fell into by default when I was converted at - or into - an Evangelical church) assumes that if you are repeating something regularly it must necessary be, to some extent, mindless. However, rejecting the chaos in many services which believe children should be present in the public worship and the opposite extreme where children are sent away, set me to thinking more seriously about the value of liturgy especially for families. Of course I don't think that we should do things in church merely with a view to 'people' - our worship service is not truly God-centred if we are giving primary consideration to the people and not to HIM. That being said, my children know the liturgy of the book of Common Prayer morning worship and wherever we are in a service where any of the scriptures we are familiar with repeating, even the smallest children can feel they are included and lift their voices to the Praise of their creator and Saviour.

2) On the subject of Genesis - I am reading Roy Mohon's book 'Cosmic War Survival'. I started it while on the beach at Lyme Regis but 10 pages in I realised I could not do this book justice with all the distractions of the beach. Mohon expands on the story of the creation and fall. He takes the Bible at face value and doesn't try to make allowances for 'science'. In fact he shows, very lucidly, that much which calls itself science in the 21st is more like a religion. We certainly have seen in the area of Evolution that the scientist begins with that presupposition and interprets the 'facts' to fit - however illogical or contorted it might appear. I begin to suspect that we need to know who is paying for any particular bit of research before we listen to the conclusions arrived at... How much easier it would be to NOT challenge everything (or am I just plain 'contrary'?) but how can I change the habit of a lifetime- even before I knew I had entered the Kingdom, I was always an individual to ask 'why' - and have always been amazed that there are so many who don't. Any way, when I get to the end of the Cosmic War Survival I will be writing a book review although it is going to be a challenge to summarise, in a few words, a book which is so jam-packed with information and food for thought. Is there a millionaire out there who will invest in publication of Mohon's book and bind it along with Steve Chalke's (boy, he's lost it alright...) or must we sit on our hands and see the gullible 21st Century church - most of whom think and live like the secular humanists they have been trained as - slide ever further down....