less and less interested in spiritual issues—privatizing them and leaving them to the individual—and has drifted to more pluralistic attitudes to religion, the Church has found itself increasingly marginalized and uncertain of its role in society. In turn, one of the recurring ideas expressed by those involved in the Emergent or Emerging Church movement is a disillusionment with church initiatives from the late twentieth century that are interpreted as part of an acquiescence to a feel-good, self-centred