Monday, 27 October 2008

This morning, I had a brief discussion with Maria and Sha-Lee about WCVS's marketing and promotion. One of our trustees, the admirable Ian Stageman, has offered to help us think things through and this is an offer we intend to accept with enthusiasm.

Gayle Williams was buried today in Afghanistan. I hold no candle for any religion (interesting choice of words) but it doesn’t matter to me what Gayle believed or what she preached: that some people will kill for the sake of religion seems to me utterly bizarre. In this, and too many other instances around the world and across all faiths, I simply cannot construct a coherent rational model of what the killers thought or believed. This set me thinking about the relationship between fundamentalist faith and mental well-being: someone should do some research.