Someone asked what sort of people one might find at the Church Basement mock revival. Check out these sofa spud reformers. You might want to go back and reread the opening of John Bunyan's

The Pilgrim's Journey

From This World to That Which is to Come;

Delivered under the Similitude of a Nightmare

Imagine Pilgrim laboring under his heavy pack and hearing the good news from Emerging Evangelist as he appears from behind a nearby bush.

Why do you think that so many people are questioning the traditional ways of doing church?

I think so many people are searching for authenticity that if something doesn't appear or seem authentic, then they question, and then when they question they will look for another place to find authenticity to express themselves and to be fed and to mull over things that resonate of reality, not just something that's fabricated.

And here's an idea like unto it:

I think a lot of people are questioning the ways they've been doing church because to be quite honest people are getting tired of doing church. They'll look for something that's real and they're tired of being fed, like, religion so I think that's why people are tired of the traditional ways of church.

While I consider it an unforgivable abuse of human speech, I took the liberty of transcribing this short treatise on faith: Helen's Uncertainty Principle.

Make of it what you can.

Do you feel like you're finding faith or losing it?
How does this make you feel?

I'm Helen Howell and I'm from Birmingham, Alabama.

I feel like I'm finding faith. I feel like I'm redefining faith; whereas I used to hold faith to be believing correctly and having a checklist of certain things to believe that I had to believe in order to be right with God or be acceptable to God. I'm finding that faith incorporates a lot more things than just certainty or certainty about certain things. So whereas I used to consider faith being certain about certain things, having a checklist, of scriptures I have to know, and being certain of what certain scriptures meant and never doubting that and never looking for a new interpretation, rather now coming to understand faith is incorporating doubt and faith as incorporating change and faith being a journey, involves mistakes and it's messy. I recently read an author who's talking about Derrida. Derrida said that in French pas means two different things, it means "step" as well as a "misstep" and applying that to journey, so when stepping, it's inevitable that we will misstep, when journeying it is inevitable that we will make mistakes. And so coming to understand faith is just setting out on the path and that faith is going to look different in different times and faith not being the feeling that I have arrived. I believe everything I am supposed to believe, I understand everything I'm suppose to understand correctly that there is some sort of indubitable foundation, but rather refusing to ever think that I have arrived, that I don't need to continue to grow or seek or to admit that my understandings were wrong. So faith is being much more of an adventure into the unknown and that's very freeing. I no longer have to fear that if I don't understand something correctly that I'm no longer right with God or that my fellow Christians, brothers and sisters from different Christian traditions aren't right with God because we don't understand things the same way.

So, that's all.

I'm sure more could have been said, and perhaps more was added in explanation of what was already disclosed. Maybe there's another disk.