It's Sunday, go to church! Not so fast you Anglicans.

Sunday Service cancelled due to lack of interest! Will that sign soon be appearing on Anglican cathedrals world wide? Citing a continual depletion of worshippers, the Anglican Church of England is contemplating moving Sunday services to another day. The plan is an apparent response to a society too busy on the weekends to fit the church into their schedules. It's hoped a move to a more user friendly day will bring the flock back to the church.

Now in the interest of full disclosure, I must admit that I am not the most faithful of church attendees, but the concept of picking your day of worship along the lines of a Chinese food smorgasboard strikes me as counter productive. For as long as I can remember the day of the Lord has always been a Sunday, and while many Catholics attend a mass on Saturday nights, they also know that twice on Sunday's they can show their devotion.

But while the Anglicans debate the benefits of a floating day of worship, a look back in history may be beneficial. Back in 2001, A. Jan Marcussen, a Seventh Day Adventist pastor in Illinois offered up a reward for sharp eyed biblical scholars. Pastor Marcussen at the time had offered up to 1 million dollars to anyone who could produce "a verse from the Holy Bible showing that God commands us to keep holy the first day of the week" Sunday "instead of the seventh day" Saturday "as is commanded in the Bible." There's no follow up available to let us know if the good pastor ever paid out. But since there's been no shake up in the Adventist congregations, one assumes that all is as it was and the good Pastor still sits on his million.

For the Anglicans the debate will go on for another few weeks, without the benefit of a cash reward at the end of their careful consideration. Expect the traditionalists to win out over the new thinkers this time around, some parts of your tradition you just don't want to open up to controversy.