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Gwyneth Paltrow has often described setting up Goop as “a calling”. Photograph: Ilya S Savenok/Getty Images/Goop
Gwyneth Paltrow has often described setting up Goop as “a calling”. Photograph: Ilya S Savenok/Getty Images/Goop
Mon 3 May 2021 11.41 EDT
Last modified on Tue 4 May 2021 07.55 EDT
While serving for 38 years as a Methodist minister, I took it as read that it could be described as a “calling”. On retirement, and getting elected to the city council, some people were aghast when I suggested that politics could be seen in the same way. After discovering that Gwyneth Paltrow has often described setting up Goop as “a calling”, (Gwyneth’s Ark: sailing towards wellness but never quite getting there, 30 April), I am inclined to stop using the word.