On most people, they act only as only a mild sedative, but on the right-wing press they work like too much catnip. He, too, was trying only to be kind when he delivered the presidential address at the meeting of the General Synod in York. It is also entirely irrelevant to anything that the Synod might need to decide or to think about. Since the relationship between the survivors and the Church is almost entirely adversarial now, something like this was probably inevitable. Jon Day’s review in the London Review of Books of Immanuel, Matthew McNaught’s book about Pentecostal Christianity, is unillusioned, but remarkably sympathetic.

Source: The Times July 13, 2023 23:33 UTC