Like most regular listeners of Radio 4 Today programme I mentally switch off when ‘Thought for the Day’ comes on at 7:45. It usually has some religious commentator make a tortuous connection between a random item in the news and a moral or religious message. You know the kind of thing, how the Sermon on the Mount has some deep buried message about prudent fiscal policy for Gordon Brown. This morning had one of those rare things a ‘Thought for the Day’ that was both interesting and thought provoking. Colin Morris asked what is an ideal family and where should we look for one? Well not the church it would seem and certainly not the bible. Neither the old nor especially the New Testament have any families which fit the notion of the family that the church tries to have us believe is the right one today. So Morris concludes how can we take the stance as some members of the church do about ‘gay’ bishops and single parent families as not being right. All families are different, true some are more different than others, but to those within them they are families all the same.