The Church of the Saviour in Washington DC , to which I referred in the previosu post below, has, for over 56 years (or maybe it’s 57 now) lived on the boundaries of both Inward and Outward Journeys (the Journey Inward. Journey Outward schema is the title of a book penned by Elizabeth O’Connor that is the second installment of a history of the Beginnings of the Church of the Saviour, and the birth and evolution of their theology of Church). Their theology of Church has influenced me for the better part of 27 years, since the time I picked up Call To Commitment (the first installment if that COS history) at the recommendation of a group of guys in my youth group (with whom all kept in touch after we were out of high school, and technically not “youth” anymore, but still very active in the youth program). That was the summer of 1976, and I followed that reading with the sequel, Journey Inward , Journey Outward), and the third installment, The New Community. Years later, and having visited COS three times, and continuing to read other books by O’Connor and the pastor, Gordon Cosby, I find it increasingly hard to stomach what passes for Church — the disturbing “lack of theological talk” even at Church, except that which comes “down from the pulpit” (the top-down dissemination of messages and guidelines from the top, instead of the participatory, mutual accountability to know the details of the journeys of one another.)