people mean today; it’s much bigger than that, much more all-embracing. Then I pointed out that hardly anyone actually “chooses” a faith, like someone in a supermarket picking out a particular brand of soup. Then I began to say why, granted all that, I would argue for the truth of the Christian faith and for the positive, healing, life-giving effect it has. I was only a few words into that third section, which was after all answering the question, when I was interrupted by the chair. “Oh, Tom,” she said, “we can’t say that sort of thing on air. That’s proselytizing.”
