NEW 02.2010: All-new site - sadly same old content!

In the past ten years, we have seen the number of visitors to contemporary churches rise threefold. They come because they feel that their lives really are reflected in the worship they see there. Church is no longer a remote, good-for-you pursuit in which you have to be educated in the long and arduous narratives of Western church history. It has exploded into a multicultural, multimedia spectacle in which worshippers have embraced all the technologies available. The multivalency of media is mirrored by a multivalency of cultural rooting. There is no longer just one church history to be followed; the invitation is there to challenge and recontextualise the histories that we have accepted from the past. The Church is is a position to do something extraordinary to reflect the diversity of British life. The Church should continue where it has begun, playing with church history in order that we, too, should play with it. It should take up its role as a reviser of inherited histories and a producer of a new awareness, in which the validity of any one history is never put before the direct, one-to-one primal experience of a single worshipper in the face of a single act of worship in a single space. [a clue: for words like worship and church substitute art, gallery, Tate Modern....it's from an article in a newspaper]