Penelope Wallace

21st July 2017 In Christianity, General By Penelope Wallace

Dispatched (Funerals part 2)

I finished last time by saying something like: Should a service just be about a person, even a Christian person? How much does the service matter in terms of the grieving process? Can I really have what I want at my funeral, and what is that? Three...

7th July 2017 In Christianity, General By Penelope Wallace

Hatched, matched and dispatched

According to traditional (chauvinistic) etiquette, a lady only wishes to appear in the news on three occasions in her life – birth, marriage and death. These three events are still the times when most of us are most likely to be in the local paper...