Please see below an interesting article on the whole issue of current pressure for conformity from the more conservative evangelical parts of the church, and how this is at odds with the values of the protestant reformation.

It is interesting to reflect on the current crisis in the Church as raising the very same issues in the church - but a crisis that has been brought about by the shift of modernism to postmodernism. Somehow, cultural change always seems to faction people into two groups - the radical and the conservatives. We see this being played out in the Anglican Church as we speak.

What is fascinating, is that groups such as 'reform' and others hold as their aim - to finish off what the reformation failed to complete because of the intervention of Queen Elizabeth I - about maintaining a broad centre of prostestant and catholic co-existing in 1 church. It was only the extreme catholic and the puritans that would not accept this idea of diversity.... and now in the 21st century, it is the conservative catholic and conservative evangelicals who seek to undermine the advances of the Church of England to respond to the culture and times we currently live in.

Such positions, in my opinion do not understand or value the deep biblical understanding of the body of Christ and the call to be an ekklesia - an alternative society - yes incomplete, but at least an attempt to find unity in diversity to approximate to the Kingdom of God.

There is therefore a place for catholic, evangelical, charismatic, emerging church, you name it.....