Jewish sixties’ pop-star Helen Shapiro was searching for something. Stirred by the story of how Stan Telchin’s daughter became a Christian,1 she found herself a Bible. In her own words, ‘I took a deep breath, decided, “In for a penny, in for a pound” and opened up at the New Testament. I didn’t know what to expect, other than an anti-Semitic diatribe. The thing that shook me to the core on that first reading was … the genealogy of Jesus, which went through