The Village Shepherd
Rich And Poor Are Equal?
Sermon
In small villages, everyone knows if someone new comes to live in the village. When a young, unmarried mother moved into one of the council
houses with her four children but no husband or partner, the village was agog.
But no-one paid her a visit. She didn't quite belong. In this particular
village there had never been any unmarried mothers with lots of children. There
had, of course, been village girls who had "got into trouble" and become
pregnant and who had been spoken about in hushed tones, but never anything like
this.
