P.G. Wodehouse once wrote that the best sales promotion for any book is to get it condemned by a bishop (a truth for which the estate of D.H. Lawrence is still immensely grateful). But I confess I was saddened by the response of some readers to my review of Ben Elton's Popcorn.
One published letter, and several unpublished, described my contribution as 'garbage', a 'slide into the depths of pornography', 'gibberish' and 'utterly unacceptable and spiritually dangerous.' I found it rather daunting, as a reader of Evangelicals Now and its predecessor for some 18 years, to be categorised as 'Mr. Porter and his ilk'.
I can't speak on behalf of my ilk, but let me respond to some of the issues that have been raised.
