In the trenches of the Western Front, at dawn each day everyone was put on high alert, in total vigilance, in a daily ritual called ‘Stand To’. As the sun was rising, every man had to turn out and stand on the ‘firestep' of the trench with guns and grenades at the ready, in case the Germans, masked by the rising sun in the east, should choose that moment to launch an attack. It was the most nerve-shredding time of day.

Our Judaeo-Christian scriptures  elevate the need for us to be alert. How can we practice alertness to the dangers of our moral universe, to the forces that would harm us and others? 

A talk for Remembrance Sunday 8 November 2020.

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