We have been living through years of uncertainty and unease, and this past season, that uncertainty has ramped up to an alarming degree. I don’t think that in my lifetime society has had to deal with as much instability—unless you cast your mind back to the cold war and the fear of nuclear attack that some of us were raised with. Perhaps, some of us out there will remember the 1930s and their economic upheaval and political turmoil as a

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a dedicated nation, a people claimed by God for his own, to proclaim the glorious deeds of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. Once you were not a people at all; but now you are God’s people. Once you were outside his mercy; but now you are outside no longer. 1 Peter 2:9-10 Having faced a short Epiphany, and an early Lent this year we