It cannot be by coincidence that September’s Life and Work, includes articles about the property owned by the Church of Scotland, people in need of a reasonable standard of living, followed by Tearfund’s ‘The gospel of grace’ about the desperate need of refugees in Rwanda.The Church of Scotland has millions of pounds in capital. As the title of a book has it we are’ Rich Christians in a World of Hunger ‘.

Hymn writer Janet Wootton, wrote this for the Centenary of Christian Aid, ‘Moratorium on Magnificat ‘.

‘While need and greed go on and on how dare we think of Mary’s song?’

Lorna Cammock, Edinburgh