I have to admit your question has flummoxed me, Andrew.

I know that ‘Diversity in worship and spirituality’ was the category in which I was least likely to place a vote and yet I cannot help admitting that it has been certain experiences of what we tend to now call ‘alternative worship’ (the old candle burning, incense smelling, hold a rock, “what does it mean?” type thing) that has aided my conviction that emerging theology must become more creative.

I mean this in both a positive and negative way. There have been times where a rich alternative worship experience has deeply moved me and I have felt, almost intuitively, that something has to change as a result of this experience and my theology plays catch-up, or rather finds a greater creativity. But then there have also been so many experiences of alternative worship which have been so unutterably rubbish that I beg to not have to speak of them! :o)

I guess I am longing for a form, or manner, of worship that both makes sense and is powerful in the 21st Century consumer culture which I cannot escape. I equally long for a relevant spirituality that can flow out of that worship.

I guess I would sum up by saying that while ‘Theological integrity and creativity’ fascinates me and enlivens me, and definitely got my vote, I would have loved to have been able to genuinely vote for ‘Diversity in worship and spirituality’ or in fact as you put it, Andrew, ‘Renewal in worship and spirituality’, but I just couldn’t have done so with any integrity. I simply do not have it… yet.

Does anybody feel the same way?