The Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow is currently hosting an exhibition called Made in God’s Image, in which the artists Anthony Schrag and David Malone ‘have explored faith and sexuality with members of The Metropolitain Community Church, Quest, Al Jannah Muslim Group and individuals from a range of faiths’. One exhibit, proposed by the Metropolitan Community Church, consists of a copy of the Bible (from the picture it appears to be a Family Faith and Values Bible), some pens, and an invitation to people to write themselves into sacred text: ‘If you feel you have been excluded from the Bible, please write your way back into it.’ Perhaps not surprisingly people have responded with enthusiastic profanity and obscenity (see the article in the Times for the lurid details).

In our community gathering of this Sunday past, at one point we stood around one of five worship stations where we gave focused attention to God who is Eternal Word, Trinity, and Creator by listening to a high-volume rendition of Joseph Haydn’s, The Creation, Chorus and Trio No.14. “The heavens are telling the glory of God,” shouts the chorus in full-voiced opulence, and the trio explains more fully that thus “the word gets out through all the world, sounding in every ear, stranger to no tongue.” The orchestral colouring of crisp brass and tight percussion add a sense of emphatic punctuation that even the best grammatical exegesis can hardly match. It was, for most of us there, one of those moments. “Epiphany” is not too strong a word.