Fifty years ago, practically to this very minute, I was reading Psalm 66 as my daily discipline. It’s what I still do – working through all 150 psalms, and then starting all over again. But this Saturday morning, it was different. It was 1976: I was a final year theological student at Durham with Jacqui pregnant with our second child. It had been a difficult few months. She had had blood pressure problems in having Deborah two years earlier but this time it was worse, requiri

“It was so casual for them—just a joke, just a post—but for me it stayed, long after they’d moved on.” Bullying through social media can be both casual and cruel, especially for young people. What feels like a fleeting moment for one can linger painfully for another. It is no surprise, then, that governments around the world—Australia being the first—are beginning to explore ways of offering greater protection to this vulnerable age group. And yet, this is not a new phenomeno