Sunday

We have a tented village of protesters outside our Cathedral, camping on land that belongs to the church but is made available to all.  They are I presume, protesting about capitalism, Government wrongdoings, the Bankers and lots more things that I sometime agree with and other times disagree with as is my right in what we like to think of as a free country.  But I am not trespassing and refusing to leave!  I am in agreement with the fact that they are being allowed to stay where they are so long as they do not cause any trouble to people wanting to use the Cathedral.  However, the media are determined to get a story out of this and are forever present - this morning they were camped outside the door pushing microphones toward people leaving asking for a comment.  The Dean had already warned us that they were there and the back doors had been opened so that as many as wished could leave that way - about a hundred or so did that but I came out of the front door as my 'dear one' was waiting there to give me a lift home.  How odd that Sunday after Sunday and many times during every week I leave by that door totally invisible to the world outside but it only takes a few tents and suddenly we are NEWS.  We are all aware that whatever the outcome of this we, as the church, will be in the wrong - big time.  St Paul's have become world news because they also tried to allow a free protest - one man has lost his job and many others made insecure and unhappy.   The protesters know all the questions just like I do, but also just like me they don't seem to have any answers.  Shouldn't they be camped outside Parliament?