Louise Morse asks if the church is retiring people too early from active participation?
‘When I am an old woman I shall wear purple…’ begins Jenny Joseph’s famous poem, Warning.
For her, old age meant being free from conformity and responsibility. Now 85, Jenny may have noticed a couple of things – one, that 85 is now considered by many to be the start of old age, and two, that being old is not what it used to be.
