Chris Brain meets the Anglican church

from The Rise and Fall of the Nine o'Clock Service describing how Chris Brain ran services in the early 1990's. Quoted from The Abolition of Britain chapter 5: "Hell Freezes Over"

'Druidic white-robed figures around an alter resembling a crescent moon...hundreds of black-clad figures peer out of the darkness, swaying to swirling, strangely ethereal breaths of ambient techno.'

This, remember, is taking place in an Anglican church, heir to the monastic tradition and the poetry of Thomas Cranmer. But instead of the timeless comfort of beauty and order, the worshipper hears, 'The Lord is here...his spirit is with us', and then listens to the 'first song, led by the band', followed by 'body prayer, a sort of Christianised yoga', and then a multi-decibel confession: 'Creator God, the source of all life, we confess our sin to you...we confess that as we've wanted more and more we have dominated and exploited your creation...we admit...that we are complicit in destroying you by polluting the air and sea, by destroying the forest, by starving the people of the Third World.'

Then 'a rapper comes over the top, giving it all he's got, and gradually fades into a sample of an Eastern voice wailing.' Then Chris (Brain) says: 'God who knows the equality of all people, and the trap of false dreams, release and deliver you, Amen.' He then 'fades into the sound of running water and birdsong and then it is time for the sacrament'.