Faith through Dunblane

There's not usually much inspiration within the pages of the UK Press Gazette. It's a trade newspaper for journalists that's just been bought by Piers Morgan. The front page graphic about the future of professional journalism in the face of the blog caught my eye and I kept it back when I was recycling the old papers this week. (Usually The Telegraph if you're interested - I also subscribe to the Digital Guardian and read it online)
What inspired me wasn't the feature about blogging but a report about the ordination of George Pitcher. He's a former business editor at The Observer and now an author and director of a PR company. According to the article his path to ordination started at a service in St Brides Fleet Street, the morning after the Dunblane massacre. He's quoted as saying "I was wandering around feeling rather numb that morning, feeling ashamed to be human. I went to communion and then started coming every week". He was ordained in St Paul's last week and will serve as a non stipendary curate at St Brides.
So twice in a week I hear about Dunblane - the other? Young Andy Murray who delighted the crowds at Wimbledon. While George was feeling ashamed to be human, Andy was making sense of what had happened at his school. He'd hidden in the headmaster's office while a gunman opened fire in the gymnasium. We can't escape the evil in the world - but thankfully some manage to light a light in the darkness.