Sing the Lord’s song in a strange land!
12 October 2025 Readings Jeremiah 29.1, 4-7 Psalm 111 Luke 17.11-19 May the words of my mouth, and the meditations of our hearts, be always acceptable in your sight, O Lord our Rock and our Redeemer. The universe is, of course, a very strange place - and people who live in it quite often feel bewildered and off balance. Nowhere is this unsurprising fact better illustrated than in the 1978 instant hit radio play cum novel, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, in which Earthling Arthur Dent is rescued by an undercover alien and whisked aboard a Vogon destructor starship moments before his planet is due to be demolished to make way for an intergalactic hyperspace bypass. Arthur, who had just stepped out of the shower, is thrust into the bewildering and fantastical cosmos wearing nothing but his dressing gown and carrying a bath towel - which actually turns out to be very useful - and he spends the rest of the story being very surprised and trying to catch up. Apart from being a ma...