These last few months have seen events take place that have been distressing and inexplicable to many believers. Political positions and moral declarations have been abandoned by those whose word we have come to rely on and whose faithfulness we never doubted. I am speaking of course of the decision taken by the DUP to enter an alliance with the murderers of Sinn Fein/IRA and form a power-sharing government in Northern Ireland. There are none within the DUP but have shown some indication that they are conscious of the political about-turn that they have engaged in. Their somersault is all the more conspicuous in that they have been so unrelentingly critical of any who did in the past what they are now doing Names like "traitor" and "liar" and "lundy" were heaped upon any who showed the least inclination to set foot on the road which the DUP have entered upon at a gallop! Their past criticisms of others are seen by many to be now falling on their own head. It reminds me of a story of a fighter plane overtaking its own shells as they ricocheted off a concrete runway and shooting itself down! The DUP are being hit by the very criticisms that they aimed at others in the past.