Almost two decades ago, I spent time researching how past generations of Baptists had approached changes in practice... in a parallel universe, I completed the doctorate that would have seen debates among Particular Baptists on hymn-singing and General Baptists on marriage used as case studies to reflect on potential for change in the twenty-first century, but in this universe, I gratefully took the MPhil not expecting the day would ever come when I might want to dig out these old essays.

It appears someone else has now published on the hymn-singing debate (must read their work and compare it with my own) but so far I haven't heard of anything on the endogamy debate.  For at least a couple of years now, I have trawled trough old floppy discs and old CDs searching for the elusive essay - and today I found it.  Hurrah!  It may never reach publication (it would need a lot of work to stand aloe and to complete it - it was only ever meant to be a chapter alongside the hymn-singing stuff) but I am glad to have recovered it, because it was a half-decent piece of work!