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BEYOND A JOKE (opens the original)
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REUNION ALL ROUND was a satirical essay, published in 1914, by the then Anglican Ronald Knox. It’s a biting analysis of the Liberal Protestantism which he saw as the dominant mindset of the Established Church. When you boil it down, the ‘ideas’ held by your average C of E bishop are so vacuous, they can be made to mean almost anything. So, Knox fantasised that they would eventually reach out to embrace ‘all faiths or none’. One of the sections of the essay is entitled ‘Mahomet a Good Anglican’.<
Who’s telling the truth - Charles Spencer or Charles Windsor? (opens the original)
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<img alt="King Charles Coronation: Royal photographer Arthur Edwards knows real ..." class="sizing-normal" height="720" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!j7Pr!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.
OUR BELOVED DIANA (opens the original)
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<img alt="Spencer Tiara: Inside Princess Diana’s Legendary Heirloom" class="sizing-normal" height="1820" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t5E9!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpu
BAYEUX (opens the original)
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It is worth the inordinately long wait! (We were booked to see the masterpiece at 5.30 and it was 6.45 before we were in shuffling distance). <img alt="Fury as 'woke' British Museum warns visitors that ancient Egypt exhibit ..." class="sizing-normal" height="639" src
Where have all the Vicars gone? (opens the original)
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This week came the news - alas, very unsurprising news - that the Church of England has reached a crisis point, with a catastrophic decline in the numbers of those offering themselves for ordination to the priesthood.<img alt="Jane Austen: The Last Great English Nove
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