The Back Page: Storytelling and other Barbaric Practices

For once there was a modicum of attention in my junior church group. It’s a mixed-ability, mixed-age group, with plenty of mixed attitudes to God. It ranges from the ‘It’s all rubbish, I’d rather talk about huskies’ approach to a seven year-old who has recently brought her entire family to become regular churchgoers, has been baptised and is delighted to see her parents on an introduction to Christianity course.