Delia Smith’s Reviews > Against the Wind: Memoir of a Radical Christian > Status Update

“The people who worked to build cathedrals in the Middle Ages never saw them completed. It took two hundred years and more to build them. Some stone cutter somewhere sculpted a beautiful rose; it was his life’s work and it was all he ever saw. He never entered the completed cathedral, but one day the cathedral was really there. You must imagine peace the same way.”

“I tried to get a dashing young journalists interest in what our group was about. His reply was “a bunch of peace-ladies arent worth the trouble”. I have never forgotten that insult against peace, against older people, who had, after all experienced two world wars, and against women who by definition were not taken seriously”

The tradition that joins us together is justice...