Marina Hyde (So what would St Paul do? Call in health and safety, 29 October), is wrong on two counts. (1) In understanding of the Bible: St Paul makes it abundantly clear that Christians are no longer bound by every one of the more than 600 commandments of the Law of Moses. The other Apostles agreed with him. (2) In the ill-informed attack on George Carey: I was on the crown appointments commission from the beginning to the end of consideration and nomination of him as Archbishop of Canterbury. Her story is wrong. He was our first choice.
Canon Dr Colin Craston
Bolton
• How sad that Marina Hyde spurns the opportunity of the St Paul's debacle to address the real issues. Instead she resorts to mindless insult. She does not linger long enough with Paul to note that, in sending back the slave Onesimus to his master Philemon, Paul urges Philemon in effect to set Onesimus free. And such a cock-eyed view of Paul and authority!
Prof James DG Dunn
Chichester
• So, St Paul was a lackey of established authority, was he? That will explain the beatings, persecution, imprisonment and execution at the hands of the established authorities then. Hang on, that doesn't sound right, does it?
Gregor Woods
Sheffield
• We are appalled that the City of London and St Paul's Cathedral will be serving notices to quit on the Occupy LSX camp outside the church (Report, 29 October). They need to take note of JF Kennedy's statement that: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable." We support the entirely peaceful protests at St Paul's, at Finsbury Circus and those taking place in towns and cities across the world.
Iain Banks, Moazzam Begg, Roger Lloyd Pack, Andrew Burgin, Brian Eno, Lindsey German, Ben Griffin, Kate Hudson, John Pilger, Michael Rosen, David Wilson
• As a lawyer and an Anglican I have no patience with churchmen trying to hide behind their lawyers' advice. Lawyers should use imagination to help clients solve their problems – not simply err on the side of caution. And clients should press their lawyers to be creative, and take the risks that faith demands. Faith, as Martin Luther said, is a lively reckless confidence in the grace of God.
Imogen Clout
Sheffield
