It's time to explore new approaches to Christianity

Florence Henderson made a big impression on me in my late teens. This vivacious New Yorker was stimulating, funny and challenging. She belonged to a Roman Catholic lay women's movement called The Grail, and some friends and I would drop in to their Edinburgh base for a chat. These were heady days in religious as well as cultural terms: Pope John XXIII and John "bigger than Jesus" Lennon, Vatican II and Lady Chatterley's Lover, Honest to God and John Profumo. Established orthodoxies were under pressure.