WAKING up in the lion enclosure at Regent’s Park Zoo, I am aware of one of the beasts padding menacingly towards me. Fragments of memory return: following a late evening with the Bishop of York, we broke into the zoo and, in an attempt to recreate the story of Daniel (Daniel 6:22), I shinned over the fence to join the big cats. 

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