Mr Thompson has done the 'Holy Smoke' blog for four years...

Or so, if I've been reading correctly on Twitter, and congratulations to him for what is, apart from the comments (and it didn't used to be this way, according to those who know), a most excellent insightul well-informed commentary on the Church in the UK; ad multos annos.  But my interest in that particular post is aroused because I've just gotten done with the first two series of Torchwood, which is spun off from Dr Who, of which I've seen precisely one episode. Perhaps two or three; but the point is I know only one Doctor and one of the Doctor's companions and have resisted knowing anything about the cultus of the franchise.  I find depictions of imaginary worlds that explicitly exclude the sovereignty of the divine Majesty and grace and the Church thought provoking, and wonder if their creators don't ever reflect on the fact that the same contests of virtue and honor that Religion perfects play out in their scenarios; they create putatively godless men and women but they are the same mankind redeemed by Our Lord. Am glad to know what UNIT is, ha.