Good news for dark days

However recent news, whether locally in St Albans and Harpenden or on the national stage, has been far from positive.

Locally we have had tragic deaths, motorway accidents, crime stories, travel disruption.

Nationally we have a Government tackling an unrehearsed Brexit without any Opposition able to keep them in check.

In the Middle East the stories and pictures show a horror we try to erase from our memories.

Across the Atlantic the news is utterly bizarre.

I assume we have here the two greatest stars that a nation of over 300 million people can find as their possible leader. You really could not make it up if you tried.

The noteworthy information on our screens and in this and other newspapers gives us a picture of our local and global communities.

It’s probably no different from what might have been reported in earlier centuries – except that people then were spared the technology that brings it to us as it happens.

The New Testament has four major books known as Gospels: written by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

They tell the story of Jesus’s life on earth, in different ways and with different emphases. All, though, focus in particular on his death.

It’s supremely noteworthy and although not about recent events comes as fresh as when it was first written.

And the meaning of the word Gospel? It’s Good News.

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