Train Encounter

While on the train from Wales back to London we were all engaged in different forms of media and reading. Lisa, of course, had three things going at once - reading Andy Crouch's book "Culture Making", listening to music on her ipod and watching the game played by the family in the next seat. Laura caught Lisa's attention to pull out her ear buds and listen to the conversation that was happening several seats behind us. We heard a youngish man (maybe mid-20s) talking about how he no longer goes to church and doesn't believe in God. He called his parents' Christian religion and the "conservative school" they sent him to as "brainwashing." Laura and Lisa talked afterward about how this young man must have been hurt or did not see the Christian faith lived out in a genuine way for him to reject it so decidedly.