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Dear Scott [and Don and by extension all the good folk who put out ideas!],

Just received the Winter issue of ideas! and wanted to write to let you know how impressed I was with this issue and with the improvements I have seen in ideas! over the past few years. As a long-time presbytery person I have read Vanguard and Alert and all the other publications our denomination has put out. Ideas! is the best yet. Keep up the good work.

Blessings,
Hugh Anderson
Cascades Presbytery

To Whom It May Concern:

I find that the ideas! material/publication is too full of empty space, ads, and graphics, while good, thought-filled articles are missing. In contrast to the ideas! publication, I find myself making greater and greater use of a quarterly put out by the Christian Reformed Church titled “Reformed Worship.” Its ideas are worthy of study and use, as would be attested to by my own worship committee and congregation. Again, I am sorry to be so disappointed by something which the denomination is putting out, but I am. Ideas! is slick, shallow, and of little real value.

Shalom, the Rev. Karen Blatt, First Presbyterian Church, Beaverton, Michigan 48612

For those of you looking for more scholarly articles for your worship committees, let me direct you to the quarterly publication Call To Worship, produced by the Office of Theology and Worship. Call to Worship is available by subscription. — Ed.