Change? Change!!

There's a saying in the Church of England that if you do something once it's a change, but once you've done it three or four times in a row it's a tradition and you'll never be able to get rid of it.

I used to be amused by our youth group's impatience to shake things up at church and to make things a bit more, well, modern. Whilst I encouraged experimentation in worship I always used to stress the point that there's a time and place for some things and that not every Sunday morning can be the same as the youth events we used to frequent. There are ways and means of introducing things, although sometimes radical change can be introduced sensitively too.

So it's with amusement that I observe those same young people (and a curate friend of mine) reacting with horror when their favourite occupation, Facebook, makes some changes to its layout. And for the second time in six months too!

Look, I still haven't worked out where my Wall went to the last time Facebook made changes, but let's face it - all they need to do is make a third change and it'll be a tradition, and then nobody will be moaning about it.