Diary

Posted: 15 Apr 2008 @ 00:00

by Glyn Paflin

Endangered species

IT HELPS, if you’re a dinosaur (trust the expert), to bring your Jurassic Period with you; but what about poor creatures who stray into the 21st century without so much as a potted fern to nourish them, while scary new species prodigally express their “feelings” all around them?

Charismatics are noticing that, while dinosaurs are still at large, there seem to be disproportionately few of them in their churches. It’s the kind ...

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