Value snaps
Sep 3rd, 2010 | By Ian Poulton | Category: SpiritualityThe opening of a new primary school year brought a comical encounter with the members of Fifth and Sixth Class. They were extraordinarily responsive to the questions in the first lesson. Suddenly one burst into laughter, ‘Reverend Ian, we are using the wrong book. We did all of this last year!’
It wasn’t an entirely wasted class. We talked about what things mattered to us. “If your house was burning down and you could save only one thing, what would it be?”
The answers were mostly predictable.
“My Wii”.
“My…