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A Church at War: Anglicans and Homosexuality by Stephen Bates

moreteamorecats's review

3.0

A journalistic record of the state of play in the Church of England circa early 2004. As history, it is necessarily dated. As analysis, it is perhaps inevitably a bit dyspeptic. There are nevertheless fascinating nuggets around the edge of the main narrative. (A few pages on the first New Westminster blessings gave me a very good start toward a case study of that moment.) Bates got almost everybody on the record, too, which is impressive in its own right. Use with caution, spiritually speaking—the material is full of hatred and thus of danger—but for me at least, ten years and more have taken some of the sting out.