Grayson Perry did a TV show about art during the lockdown (to defend us against the virus that was nothing to do with the Invisible Magic Friend).

The Big Book of Magic Stuff doesn’t say we should enjoy art for art’s sake, but it definitely meant to. It just didn’t have enough room in its 1000+ pages.

Just look at the playful god of Genesis, with his perpetually inherited original sin and worldwide flood. He’s a real artist.

There’s lots of theology in cricket.

Putting anyone on a pedestal is bound to lead to disappointment.

My best wishes to Rev Hamley for a full and speedy recovery.

I suffered from Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome last autumn, although obviously not covid related. My biggest problem was getting doctors to believe there was actually something wrong with me. They insisted I was fine. The best I got was the suggestion that I had a very active imagination, the worst that I was a shirker and a time waster.

With covid, the medical establishment is being forced to confront the reality of PVFS. The sheer number of patients means that they cannot be so easily dismissed.

And in the Big News today from a Faith Perspective, I’ve been interviewing Catholic women during the lockdown. Some of them have been black Catholic women. They’ve said different things and had different opinions.

Some have pretended to be priests while the churches were closed and they weren’t allowed inside to clean them. Obviously they can’t be real priests because you have to have the right genitalia in order to have magic powers, but they can have fun pretending to have magic powers.

Yes, everything is very different now. Women never even dreamed about pretending to have magic powers in the past.