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Obviously, a big part of the American Revolution was there would be no Church of England the way there was in England. There was a specific attempt not to have an established church.

I'm a classic Church of England member, but part of its strength is the fact that it doesn't ask us to sign up to too much of a canon... but I've always found the teachings of Jesus and the Bible quite useful as a sort of handy guide.

Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.

I think we are all trying to figure out what it means to be the Church as opposed to just doing church.

English churchmen have long gazed with love on the primitive church as the ideal of Christian perfection, the Eden wherein the first fathers of their faith walked blameless before God and passionless towards each other.

Let's be clear, I'm one of the thicker bishops in the Church of England.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.

During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.