In the way we sometimes do when we christians, at least the ones that have felt and accepted the holy spirit, don’t feel like being deep into churchthings and when we get distracted. It’s called backsliding among us Jesus-freaks, and happens to everyone who either says they are or pretends to be a Christian.

I say pretend, because really, it’s easy to be drawn into a warm and loving community, but not really to get absorbed into the core of things. Many churches are suffering what I might call ‘preacher-in-the-pulpit’ syndrome, where church is all about just listening to a guy at a podium talking about being good, …