And Now For Something Oddly Religious

Lynn Johnston has been making a slow turn to religion after ignoring it on For Better or For Worse for a number of years. There were times in the old days, when the family would make the occasional church visit, but even when Michael and Deanna got married, they managed to do it in a church with an extremely limited number of religious icons in its decor.

But now we have April and prayer. April confused prairie with prayer when she visited Winnipeg for the first time in 2005. She prayed anywhere, when thinking about Grandpa Jim just after his stroke. And today, we have April thinking that because of her prayer, the tree came down. In the midst of this, we had Mike, Deanna, Merrie, and Elly make their first Easter visit to church in years. And I also remember seeing actual crosses when Elly and John were shopping for gravesites.

Is this the sign of Lynn Johnston's new religious behaviour? Or is she just trying to get in touch with her semi-religious roots? Or better yet, is this a sign of a new and sudden personality change for April? Will she break up with Gerald for a reason which no one anticipated: Gerald is an unbeliever who tried to seduce April away from her faith. April now plans to become a nun.

We have seen a lot of personality changes since 2007 began. What's one more?