Showing posts with label Church of England. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Church of England. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Interesting Article from Cambridge England

To see ourselves as others see us: Mike Good takes a sideways look at his membership of a ‘dying’ church

The well-known phrase in my title is the second line of the final stanza in Robbie Burns’ To a Louse, a poem which came to him one Sunday morning as he sat behind a well-dressed young lady in church and noticed a head louse roaming through the fancy bows and ribbons of her hat; for it is the supposedly lousy Church of England that I wish to consider here.