Church Visit - St George's Penang

Although there is massive variability in the Anglican Church around the world, it's great that you can still turn up at an Anglican service in another country and feel quite at home. Interestingly, we visited the 'contemporary' (read 'non-Prayer Book') service so it wasn't the liturgy that gave us the familiar feel. It was more the distinctive tone, or mood, of evangelical Anglicanism that was apparent: the way people led, spoke and prayed, the close attention to the Bible (including lots of note-taking by some congregants), the relaxed-though-dignified vibe and so on. Not so great for church-tourists who are keen on collecting broad and different experiences, but great for travellers who just want to join with others for corporate worship that makes sense to them.

(The very Roman architecture is strange for an Anglican church building and the spire is a bit jarring for my eye. The whitewash was stark too - fortunately, it wasn't a tomb!)