Today’s guest editor chose a prayer for me. This is brilliant. Normally I wouldn’t mention the Invisible Magic Friend, Christianity, the Apostles, a theologian, St Paul, and how we’re the only people with courage, perseverance and hope. But today I can quite legitimately do it. So take that all you people who criticise the Thought For the Day slot for having nothing to do with the news.

https://mega.nz/file/AikUwTzJ#P2nBcB8YyDZQsWMJWcrXYC8_QeOeX3Nku_Whi3EE-P0

“Kindness, extraordinarily, is our greatest strength.”

https://mega.nz/file/1qNlXIjI#EjtCoc3wFtt3wzKhe_mv5opS9aGCO_d9MRlsgj-2Cfo

And in the Big News today from a Faith Perspective, the latest series of Planet Earth was on the telly. This is about humans who know the names of animals. Naming animals was invented by Christians.

But some Christians in the past thought that we named things so as to dominate them. These foolish, ignorant Christians, who were not as enlightened and wise as we modern, correct, Christians, interpreted the eternal and unchanging word of the Invisible Magic Friend completely wrongly. There are no creationist, fundamentalist, totalitarian Christians any more. At least, not at the BBC.

https://mega.nz/file/cjtlzTTB#lhvxwacl_ndbQd08_8jaelSyMWjUzBjKA7MyfROa7z0

And in the Big News today from a Faith Perspective, I’m not going to tell you what my hobbies are.

The Invisible Magic Friend created the universe for fun.

https://mega.nz/file/93dTyYjT#DJHwm3h5XzPkiKzcMAexDW0_eWsp58UbKRMar9Mzbs8

And in the Big News today from a Faith Perspective, Happy St Stephens Day everybody!

It’s a fitting contrast to all the joy of the birth of the Temporarily Visible Third of the Invisible Magic Friend. A profound reminder of reality.

https://mega.nz/file/ZuEhjbSA#GtCTjXa0QTUUkm8q3i4OLIG0qc5jbAfZMsAKuEMCSgw