“I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.”
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Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.
It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter, ' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
