Debbie Harry and the Violence of Change

“Incremental change is the clarion call of cowards.” - from the novel PUNKS, by Richard Cucarese,

Venerable institutions are slow to change and really do not like the experience all that much.

That was my first lesson in church leadership, as I was ordained at a time when the 1928 Book of Common Prayer was being replaced by the late ‘70’s version and there was, and still is, considerable lamentation about that.

As soon as the newer prayer book was in …