Rejecting the easy language of faith

If you believe the headlines Julie Nicholson is the vicar “who couldn’t forgive” and who “lost her faith” after the 7/7 bombings. Her daughter Jenny was killed in the bomb at Edgware Road tube station, one of four suicide attacks on London that day in 2005. Subsequently she felt unable to continue in the Anglican ministry, but wrote “A Song for Jenny” as a memoir of her daughter and her struggle to deal with her daughter’s murder.

A dramatization of those events was shown on Sunday evening on...