Why is it that not only I but millions (I suspect) of my fellow-countrymen too are left cold by the dispute raging within the Church of England about gay bishops? One has only to see the newspaper headline for the eye to slide away.
It was not always thus. Such controversies used to fire many of us on both sides of the argument with passionate conviction.
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