A lot on your plate: Tony D’Souza is challenged at a dinner party

‘God does not create the suffering in the world, we do.’

‘To reveal the light fully, we must remove everything that obscures it.’ | Photo: by Adrian Swancar on Unsplash

It was one of those dinner parties where you regret you came even before you get to the soup. My host, by all accounts a man of good character, and an acknowledged pillar of the local community, had firmly-held convictions. The problem was that he had no difficulty sharing them – repeatedly and often, or at least until you came out of your bunker waving a white flag.

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