Much of the time the thrill of reading the Church Times on a Friday is akin to the naughty feeling you used to get when you delved into the minor prophets at the back of the OT under the bedclothes with a torch - wonderful if you suffer from insomnia.
But occasionally something goes wrong, as it did last week (Friday 13th, actually), and you open it, and find all your old preconceptions challenged by insights, wit, and even sense, and then suddenly it's ten o'clock and you haven't even put the kettle on yet.
Unfortunately I cannot share with you (as we say nowadays, even in church, which is supposed to be holy) the delights of last Friday (the 13th, I believe) (of March) because of the law of copyright. You will have to buy the paper, as I do (and sadly you can't gift-aid your subs.) I could give you references to everything worth reading - name, page number, the lot, but it wouldn't help you very much, Gromit. You missed last Friday's excellent edition (with that very risqué Page 3) and now it is too late. The moment has passed. Last week's CT is a goner. It has lain on its back and curled up its toes. It is an ex-Church Times. You could use the online archive of course, but you have to be a subscriber. Not to the paper edition, but to the online edition. Which means effectively that to gain access to the archives you either pay twice or get a very large garage and keep your own pile of mouldering papers with bits cut out of them.
Oh well. I suppose it's a worthy attempt to save the rain forests.
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