I was looking through today’s pictures of the Arena Liturgy at everyone’s favorite Religious Education Conference (see here for more…) and I realized what the good Patriarch’s dancing girls remind me of: Swaziland’s Umhlanga, or Reed Dance, where more than 25,000 scantily clad virgins dance before the King for the chance to be one of his many wives. Not that the King isn’t a Christian - he has just, as we say, fallen into unsound doctrines. Perhaps he needs to study more closely that Synod proposal which I so unwisely dismissed in the first days of this blog.