Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.

We lack rituals in this modern world.

We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.

My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.

The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.

Many fall into the trap of championing the exact theology of a saint from the past, which can have errors and imbalances, and then they perpetuate these problems into the modern Christian world. Such believers are sadly being guided more by their zeal and reading of past saints than by their personal walk with the Lord and the guidance of the Spirit of God in their lives.