Monthly column for youth leaders: snoozing in the armchair church
It was a terrible situation. I hadn't seen it coming and now it was too late. I could feel my pulse quicken and the adrenaline start flooding my system. I had been caught off guard and hadn't seen the situation developing, but here I was sat in front of the telly with my family and forced to make an earth-shattering confession. 'Is there anything else on? I don't really like Songs of Praise.'
Steve Couch
Let me put in a disclaimer at this point. The following does not amount to a rant against Songs of Praise, fine piece of television as I am sure that it is. I have nothing against Thora Hird, or any of the band of young upstarts attempting to fill her shoes (I'd even go so far as to say - tentatively - that Diane Louise Jordan seems to be quite good, even if she has selfishly hogged an extra name thereby condemning an innocent street urchin to the heartbreak of a mononomular existence).
