A God-Shaped Vacuum

In 1980s Ireland, a confused teenager takes increasingly radical spiritual steps to fill a binary vacuum

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Classroom religion

Kieron didn’t want Mr Macintyre or Carol Zinger to catch him watching them, so he peeked over a jumbo-size chorus book. He needn’t have worried. They were in deep conversation about saving a damned…