No room for cynics

They say you know you are middle-aged when your broad mind and your narrow waistline swap places. I once went to preach at a church where the minister had been in place for a good number of years. The congregation was an average-sized UK number, about 50 or 60 people, its facilities were good and its programme quite active. Nothing remarkable, really, except that the minister in private was unable to restrain his cynicism about the spiritual state of significant numbers of his congregation. H...