Monthly column on hymns and songs
Every Christian should go once in a lifetime.
No, not Oberammergau or Spring Harvest; I mean the Christian Resources Exhibition from which I returned in May, staggering off the Waterloo train with armfuls of evangelical paper and plastic. I had heard of it, but never been; truly, the half was not told me.
Christopher Idle
It happens at the Sandown Park racecourse. I had not realised that the virus of betting on horses could spawn such a magnificent complex of absurd buildings and such spectacular views of Surrey suburbia - as if the Christians at Corinth had taken over the hilltop temple for their annual convention.