For all its wonder, the world is not ‘All things bright and beautiful’; its underside is ‘red in tooth and claw’. Photo: by Chris Sabor on Unsplash

‘The world is, by and large, a beautiful place.’

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‘The world is, by and large, a beautiful place.’

by Keith Denerley 18th February 2022

An article in the Friend last autumn made me sit up. It was musing on the prophesy of the last days in the Gospel of Matthew. Jesus teaches there that the time is shortened ‘because of the elect’. The chosen ones. Does that mean me? You?