16 MAY 1969, page 29

A Lesson In Communication

Sir: Mr Ludovic Kennedy (9 May) has been unfortunate in the churches he has been at, when Matthew ii. 1-8 has been read. I cannot remember ever having heard verses five and six......

The Gene Drain

LETTERS From Lord Snow, Sam Wiggs, Canon H. 4. Blair, the Rev Kenneth Meiklejohn, Mrs B. E. Adams, Joy Bath, Cdr Robin Bousfield, RN, Sir Frederic Bennett, MP, Richard Walker,......

Sir: The Article By Ludovic Kennedy (9 May) Makes One

thing perfectly plain to me. He has not the slightest idea that religion cannot be communicated without reciprocation on his side. The two passages which he quotes from St......

Sir: Mr Ludovic Kennedy (9 May) Must Surely Have Been

unfortunate in never having heard the passage he quotes (Matthew ii. 1-8) read correctly. In the four parishes (Church of Eng- land and Church of Ireland) in which I have......

Sir: It Is Delightful To Learn That Mr Ludovic Kennedy

(9 May) has, in spite of his 'humanist attitudes,' attended so many Church of England services that he can form a sound judgment on them. A suggestion: would he ask to attend at......

Student Stirs

Sir:. Six months ago you published a letter of mine in which I said that because student par- ticipation seemed to have worked in Southamp- . ton I would advocate it as a......