Thought for the Week: Words and meanings

Gordon Steel explores the comfort and tension that words and music can provoke

by Gordon Steel 3rd February 2012

There are words and music from our (largely Christian) heritage that are deeply ingrained in our souls. They are part of us and we hold them as part of our common legacy. But the march of human thought and our own understanding of ‘faith’ (in its most general sense) lead to inescapable tensions with words that we know from childhood. No doubt these tensions are felt more strongly by some of us than others.