Geoff Kennedy - Thank you. On Friday I said to a coworker that I was going to a Good Friday service. She knows I"m Baptist. She expressed surprise that Baptists do Good Friday services. Were we suddenly accepting that "liturgy and ritual is a good thing"? She was amazed to learn that most non-Catholic Christian churches celebrate Good Friday with an evening service and have for as long as I've been a Christian (40 years last month).

I don't know that I blame this ignorance completely on the lack of media coverage. Non-Catholic Christians have apparently been hiding their light under a basket. Because many churches celebrate Good Friday with the Lord's Supper and many also practice closed communion (which for Baptists means only baptized believers may participate), we tend not to invite our unchurched friends. Maybe we need to rethink that.