Storyteller's World

This evening I attended the service of dedication for i-church, at the university church of St Mary the Virgin in Oxford. It was a strange mixture of setting up what is supposed to be a cutting edge form of church, with a celebration of the eucharist that included Mozart's Spatzenmesse, Missa Brevis in C, and was allegedly using the Book of Common Prayer. (It wasn't actually, it was Order One (Traditional) from Common Worship - but let it pass.) About 80 people there. I kept looking around wondering which of the strange assortment of people there might be members of i-church. Most of my guesses - the geek, the young man with blond highlights in his hair, the young woman with a figure you just kept having your eyes drawn back to - turned out to be wrong. I suspect that many of the people there who were actually members of the i-church community, were the more mature ladies and gentlemen. Just as the really interesting blogs are more likely to be written by people with a bit of life experience, rather than the mere youngsters.

The preacher wondered whether we were making history (in a church where history has so often been made before) or embarking on a foolhardy venture.
Perhaps the beauty of it is, that we just never know.