Free the C of E
Sir: Patrick Kidd’s article on the shortcomings of today’s Church of England maintains the importance of the ‘volunteers in the pews’ who bind the church together (‘Miracle workers’, 18 May). He warns that these people ‘can so easily run away’.
This is exactly what happened to the Church of Scotland in 1843 when the hierarchy got things badly wrong.
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