And in the Big News today from a Faith Perspective, there’s a Big Christian Festival coming up. Happy nearly anniversary of the Conversion of St Paul everybody!

Which brings me neatly to Christian unity. Different Christian sects get on great with one another. We don’t imprison, torture or burn each other any more. Secular authorities have stopped that. Mild suspicion is mostly as far as it goes nowadays. Although we do manage a bit of employment discrimination and chanting at football matches here and there.

We’d have to get our hands on some real power again before we can do anything proper against all the heathens and heretics. But until those happy times return, Christian unity is doing just great.

Isn’t The Pope just fantastic!

https://mega.nz/file/9vlVCCxJ#IMGmGHT_H77WRwzDoeAi77dr1OpaHLbtkGk-kqZeK7c

The report into the Rochdale grooming gangs showed how the police and local authorities tip toed around issues of religion and culture while ignoring the plight of victims. Too many perpetrators of crimes are allowed to hide behind a cultural or religious face.

https://mega.nz/file/pjV0gAJb#tP-qZ3H4zoYPq61Xs7mUGK8VvYf4tA3MUiPGpKNtxbk

And in the Big News today from a Faith Perspective, I’m sure we all remember one of the greatest ever Thoughts for the Day, 50 years or so to the decade, by the Great Dr Colin Morris. It was all about Christian humility. I had to go so far back because we humble Christians so rarely talk about it. After all, one doesn’t like to brag, does one.

We’re more humble than anybody else. Nobody is as humble as us. Just think how much better the Ukraine or American politics, or the Post Office IT scandal would be if they had been in a Christian country, full of fantastic Christian humbleness.

The world would be a much better place if only everyone was as humble as me.

https://mega.nz/file/4zsyGTaA#2VnaZL_WcPPrwcUAT1EGsHiDTUcgyFeKYG4ZntKRW8A

And in the Big News today from a Faith Perspective, there’s a Big Sikh Festival underway. Happy Birthday of the last Sikh Guru everybody! I just have time to give a brief biography of him. He was brilliant.

Oh and the Post Office IT scandal which is exactly the same in a very different sort of way.

https://mega.nz/file/J7EwjByC#4CEk23JasnjZRn0ot12gc6vinWOnBXFcVEsD802fKvo

The average cost of a funeral is now around £10,000. Funerals and memorials are often separate, where a memorial celebrates a life well spent. But what about those who have done terrible things or whose departure from this world is mourned by no one?

This is where Church of England funerals come in. We deal with the reality of death by offering the invisible magic bit of a dead person into the hands of the Invisible Magic Friend.

https://mega.nz/file/9r1mjK5L#RR9QAMWMCJQz2HzvjQaR4L4FYX-l6MEt6499VoqM_jQ