Well it’s that time of year again when all the retail outlets are bedecked with “Back to School” stationery, uniforms, holdalls, pencil cases and anything else that might be deemed essential to the successful launch of a new academic year.
They laid hands on Jesus and arrested him... they took Jesus to the high priests; and all the chief priests, the elders, and the scribes were gathered. (Mark 14.46,53)
Already this year has a strange feel to it, you might say. Changes in leadership and direction; established institutions on the brink of fragmenting and an underlying sense of unease - where will we all end up?
Somebody said to me last week that he was fed up with the Referendum Campaign and wished it had never happened: ‘What do we pay politicians for, if it isn’t to take decisions on behalf of the rest of us?’, he asked.