I sat under the blazing lights of the TV studio, the presenter looking at me suspiciously.
I was the nasty, Bible-bashing evangelical, out of tune with the culture, the times and reality as he knew it. He really only had one aim. To show the world how irrelevant and bigoted I really was. I gulped nervously and tried to put on a brave smile as the red light went on and he turned to me, eyes boring into me like gimlets…
Religion is news. Big news in fact. And not just news on the national scale but on the local scene as well. Barely a day goes by without some major story in the national newspapers about church policy or a topical issue on which the Christian viewpoint is being applauded or attacked. And so it should be.
