I read a great interview with Fredirica Mathewes-Green about her journey to Eastern Orthodoxy. She and her husband were hippies who were thoroughly converted in the mid-seventies. He became an episcopal priest. In the early nineties they chose to move to orthodoxy - he was in his second, well-paid episcopal pastorate and started over with five families. Brave guy in my estimation.

Anyway - Frederica is a kind of Christian/Orthodox Erma Bombeck. She has a lot of great reads - check her website here.

In the interview she coments on how younger people (I am guessing younger than boomer - 40 and younger now) are looking to the ancient traditions of the church and eschewing "relevance" as a factor in doing ministry. Here's the quote:

"Even two old boomers like my
husband and myself knew ten years ago that we didn't want to join any
church that prioritized being relevant. The Gospel is already relevant,
because it's timeless; hitching it to time-bound fashion only
trivializes it. I think this insight is the wave of the future,
ironically; I think that we will increasingly see it become fashionable
to disdain passing fashion, a situation that makes Orthodox heads spin.
For example, a friend recently told me that her Southern Baptist church
has established a Celtic service, complete with chant, candles, and
incense (at least until those with allergies complained). She said that
boomers mostly go to the 9:30 "contemporary" service, where they can
have all those middle-aged things like rock music and humor and skits.
"But the older people wanted an earlier service, and the young people,
of course, wanted something more traditional." Those words keep echoing
in my mind: "The young people, of course, wanted something more
traditional." If the church of the future wants to be up-to-the-minute,
hip, and relevant, it had better look into tradition."

Anglicans often argue that they are a western version of the Eastern Orthodox. Well - that's not exactly true because there are different streams in Anglicanism. But both orthodoxy and Angliacanism are rooted in the early fathers so there are a lot of connections. So as an Anglican, I look to the east a lot for to shape my own thinkning about church/God/etc. If one is wanting to become more liturgical and sacramental but just cannot move in a Roman Catholic direction (not joining that church, but in terms of looking at its theology) then one ought to look to the east. Check Frederica's website and look at the book links. By the way - if you have read Webber's Ancient Future stuff, you are actually reading a lot of eastern orthodox ideas.