Possibly you know the name Pauline Kael. A Canadian newspaper has a reflection on her work as a movie critic here.

Toward the end of her career she was heard to say, "When we championed trash culture we had no idea it would become the only culture."

So I'm reflecting on what our culture, or our national heritage, or our Gospel cost those who passed it on to us. And I'm thinking of the bishops of the Anglican Communion gathered for the Lambeth Conference.

It is so easy to throw away that which is placed in our hands at no cost to us. But someone has paid in the past, and someone will pay in the future as a result of our care and stewardship today, for good or ill.