VERSION|0.5.1|SUBJECT|Rev Canon Angela Tilby, Christchurch Cathedral Oxford  |CONTENT|[b]Rating[/b] 3 out of 5 (Fairly platitudinous)

[url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap130205.html][img=images/2013/02/pic130205.jpg popup=false float=right][/url]And now for today's reflection on the news from a Faith Perspective. 

Did any of you see Saturday night's episode of Casualty? It was really good. I love casualty. It's brilliant. It's not just all the technical doctory wizardness but the interactions between the diverse array of characters. 

The whole spectrum of human emotions is played out on our TV screens, and like any soap opera it's possible to read too much into it if you like. Which if you think about it is a bit like church really: superficially interesting but all just made up.

Saturday's episode involved someone who was killed, who was a police officer, whose partner had the skills needed to save the killer who had accidentally killed their partner, who was the police officer but had been mistaken for someone who wasn't a police officer, during a riot. It was all very dramatic and moving. I think even non-vicars watching this would see the strong church connection.

But we must always remember that this is the NHS being shown at it's best. In real life the NHS can be pretty horrid like [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-21330979]Stafford Hospital[/url]. When you go to a real A&E you'll largely be ignored for hours by doctors who are overworked and under-experienced, tended to by gossiping nurses and untrained care staff. That's a bit like church too, always portrayed as useful and generous but in reality as self serving and hypocritical as any other institution.

It's all about redemption really, isn't it?

I wonder what's on the telly tonight?

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