church. Understandably so, for some churches are too conservative, too resistant to change. One might say that they are stuck in the mud, and the mud has set like concrete. Their favourite formula seems to be ‘As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, Amen’. We must of course listen to young people. But the Holy Spirit’s way with the institution of the church is more the way of patient reform than of impatient rejection. So don’t let’s polarize between the structured