Rolf Burnie, of Thurlestone, Kingsbridge, writes:

As the writer of the Christian comment article criticised by Hamilton Bailie, Gazette, June 24, can I reassure him that I am not in any way anti-European.

I have German and British grandparents with relatives on the German side killed in the First World War and a wife with Norwegian grandparents. I could go on in that vein, but at least it is enough to indicate I am hardly likely to be anti-European.

I did touch, though, in passing on a topical issue. I am old enough to remember the Great Britain of the post-Second World War years and have seen the way we have turned away from God and the consequences.

He warns us in the history sections of the Bible of those consequences, with our own history as a nation down through the centuries confirming those words to us. That’s what I wrote about.

My longing is simply that we turn back to the one who loves us and sent Jesus to show us the way back to him.

I’m sorry, Hamilton, that you did not pick up on that longing and the direct pointer to Jesus at the end of the article as the answer for the nation’s ills.

Perhaps it would help to reread what I wrote, but if the failure is mine I apologise.

I wish you well.