Still

Still it was not like other churches, it was not driven hard by the new canons of a new elite clergy hell bent on imposing commitments on the christian flock come what may. It was a church that was kind to first time enquirers. It was a church that was brought into being by a king and his lover call-girl to be antidote to a major crisis. A church that was meant to bring the civility of bed and board, of marriage and family to the quite cadences of the cloister and parsonage. In sum the real church of england was an oasis in a desert of despair.