There appeared to be fewer in the audience for our annual trip to the Proms, and many more police, their luminous yellow jackets over their uniforms, patrolling the railway stations. The tube passengers seemed more subdued.
The two bomb attacks in July, one successful and the other a failure, have left their marks on London life.
Terrorism is here to stay. We will have to learn to live with it. But how? One report which came into the EN office was from someone who had been in New York on 9/11 and found himself in London on 7/7. His observation was that whereas in New York people flooded into the churches, in London they flooded into the pubs. But drowning our sorrows and taking Dutch courage is a feeble response.
The re-emergence of heavy shepherds
What would you think if you received a letter from your church leaders that read like this? ‘Are church members …