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All the world’s a stage
Monday 12 May 2008
Listening to that excellent programme on BBC Radio 4 this morning, ‘Start the Week’ with Andrew Marr, the overriding theme was that of hypocrisy. All the speakers seemed to agree that ‘we all wear masks’ – that, as Shakespeare had it, ‘All the world’s a stage’. Andrew Marr quoted someone who said something to the effect that ‘by the age of 50 we have the face we deserve’ according to the mask that we have chosen to wear. In the context of the biography I am writing of the evangelical leader John Stott, and who I shall be seeing later this week, the following questions arose in my mind: Does the rector of a high-profile church (All Souls Langham Place), a celebrity preacher, the leader of a worldwide movement come under a special temptation to wear a mask? And if there is some truth in the suggestion that he would have this special temptation, to what extent would he be aware of this and how has he dealt with it?
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