expressing her sexual freedom after a divorce. Quite how Anglicanism -- and even Catholicism -- hoped (in that popular phrase of the time) to 'tap into' a spiritual outpouring which reflected the reverse of almost all their key beliefs was never made clear." He points to the tendency in our society, in politics and in the media: "...to shape the institution to suit the narrowest requirements of the widest number of people, to avoid statements or demands which might seem hard or challenging, to favour inclusivity over the application of qualifications or rules, to promote rapid gratification over the eventual revelation." and his conclusion is that: "Religions, though, often need to say hard and unpopular things...... In both politics and art, the governing belief of the culture is that anything unpopular or difficult is wrong.  The current climate of thought might be summarised as the Easy Culture and religion, theology and faith aren't easy." One of the specific aspects of what Mark Lawson calls the Easy Culture is, I think, a consumerist approach to the world and a commoditisation of everything. I think Classic FM does this to music .  Everything has to be reduced to easily-digestible, bite-sized chunks , so they'll play a single movement of a symphony or a concerto on its own and then move on to something else .  And they're constantly telling you to relax . And there always trying to get you to buy their latest CDs -- they actually have a phone line