  I knew I'd face this problem sooner or later (looks like it's sooner! ) Most of the good blogs I read are from really smart people who have a lot of good things to say. I'm afraid I'm not one of those people. While I certainly have my opinions, I very rarely feel the need to write Upton Sinclair-ish diatribes.
Oh well. I'm probably the last person to read this book (it's from the 80's), but I'm currently engrossed in Robert Webber's urlLink Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail . Ever since I spent a semester in London in 1997 (and had the opportunity to visit more than my share of Anglican churches), I've been intrigued with Anglicanism and more liturgically-based worship. I know I sound like a cantankerous fogey, but liturgy appeals to me because I find that I can focus better when random individuals are disallowed from ad libbing their random thoughts and opinions in worship.
Sure - contemporary worship has the allusion of being less stuffy, and I'm not in any way waxing nostalgic about some of the worship experiences of my childhood. However, I'm just disappointed with many churches these days that have "turned the corner" on some of the dull worship tastes of 25 years ago but have replaced them with hyper-cheesy worship services that have the theological depth of a Bruce Wilkinson urlLink book and resemble a flag-waving political rally.
Liturgy doesn't allow my good sister to advertise her petition to ban same-sex marriages (more about that later) or my brother to rail on how our culture has never been more secular than it is today (don't show him that "nothing new under the sun" bit in Ecclesisates). Liturgy brings everyone together on the same page (literally), and because it can be vetted beforehand, allows worship to be solely and wholly spirtually based. PS. About these same-sex marriage ban petitions...I'll be happy to sign one when they also ban heterosexual adultery. Call me crazy, but any amendment called the "Preserve Marriage Amendment" should consider the fact that heterosexual adultery probably destroys far more marriages than homosexuality. And adultery is also considered an abomination in scripture. So let's be consistent, folks. 
