02-An Extenuating Note

In the evangelical world, touching sacred cows, let alone
prodding them with a sharp stick, is a perilous business: Sabbath,
Evangelism and Christmas spring to mind. Risking – to put it
mildly – the unsympathetic reaction of many of my fellowbelievers
– though not courting it – in other works I have fully
tackled the first two,1 and, in passing, spoken of the third. I now
turn to another untouchable – Public Worship. Actually, it would
be more accurate to say that I return to it.