After the service, a visitor bailed me up. ‘That prayer,’ she said. ‘You called Jesus our friend. Why would you do that?’
‘Um … because he tells us to,’ I said.
‘What!’ she snapped, then she shook her head briskly and walked out, leaving me wondering about the forms of address she considered permissible …
Read my piece for the upcoming Zadok Perspectives here.
Alison and the whale 