Before my owner and his wife went on their recent trip to Norway, I hatched a plan with them. Everyone in Norway speaks English, so I asked them to take some copies of my book, and to leave them, as a kind of parrot gift, in any churches that they happened to visit. After all, the Norwegians are kind enough to give us a Christmas Tree every year. It seemed a fool-proof plan to me, but I hadn’t reckoned on one small problem, and that was the churches in Norway were always locked. Big churches, little churches, in between-sized churches, -even the churches in Norway’s second city -Bergen -were locked up and apparently not even being used for Sunday morning worship. In fact, the only church that they were able to get inside was the Arctic Cathedral in Tromso, where they had to pay around £8.00 each for the privilege. And rather regrettably, this church seemed to be serving more as an architectural attraction than as a place of Christian worship.
