iceberg ahead!

Most of us don’t believe God can sink our ‘ship of state’,so we keep steaming ahead ignoring clear  Biblical warnings

It was with a somewhat sinking feeling that I approached Sheffield’s beautifully-restored Lyceum Theatre to watch Titanic – the musical. Much as I love musicals, I wasn’t quite sure how uplifting it would be to witness a staged account of a night of disaster that sent 1,500 people to a watery grave in an icy North Atlantic. But I was quite taken aback by a brilliant piece of theatre that was actually very inspiring and had much to teach the audience about the foibles and failures of early 20th century society.

It also applied equally well to current Western culture which, having jettisoned the lifeboats of Judeo-Christian morality, is rapidly heading for an iceberg of social chaos big enough to sink our entire civilization. With wonderfully choreographed singing and dancing around the hopes and dreams of passengers, along with romantic liaisons that brought tears to your eyes – knowing the fate that awaited them – it had all the feel-good ingredients you would expect from an upbeat show. And yet it is based on true accounts!