in a world of change and flux, but under it all there is a constant culture that changes little, if at all, from year to year—the culture of consumerism that creates the cult of constant change. It is that underlying bedrock with which the church must engage. How can the church do this? There is only one way so to do: by being counter-cultural. The church, both at the local level and at the level of its denominations, must be the agent of the counter-culture. The “culture wars,” so often considered