In the fourth of his meditations for Lent, Leo Cushley, Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, considers how easy it is to be seduced by all that glitters – and how easy it is for a merciful father to forgive During nearly two decades as a diplomat, I carried a copy of The New Testament in Scots, translated from the Greek by William Laughton Lorimer (1885-1967), professor of Greek at the University of St Andrews, to wherever I was dispatched by the Holy See. That included a memorable dinner party at the US embassy residence in the Burundian capital of Bujumbura in about 2000.The ambassador had asked each guest to prepare a party piece. I reached for Lorimer’s New Testament so as to recite Luke’s tale of the Prodigal Son. Few grasped every word; the “weirdless wai