What’s more important than worship? Reconciliation! “Therefore if you are presenting your offering at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering.”

When Clive Staples Lewis died in 1963 his friend John Ronald Reuel Tolkien wrote, “So far I have felt the normal feelings of a man my age – like an old tree that is losing all its leaves one by one: this feels like an axe-blow near the roots.”