Required reading
Sir: If, as Mr Christopher Booker sugge„sts, not many people will read Nick Stacey's Who Cares, I hope the few who do will be Anglican clergy. Indeed, perhaps some benefactor will provide a copy for (a) every one under the age of 45, (b) every ordinand, (c) every theological college, and (d) any other libraries used by the clergy. It will be assumed the benefactor will have the well-being of the Church thoroughly at heart, for what he is distributing is the complete guide of how not to organise and run a parish church, and the more clergy who read this, and act upon it, the better. Shades of St Peter and the Apostles, 30 telephones in one church and God is glorified! Poor, poor Stacey! And yet this is the man whom the Panorama team of the BBC consulted for their recent broadcast on the Church of England. Mr Booker calls the book sad. I call it tragic — for which reason it should be read by all clergy.
The Reverend John F. C. White 20 Abbotsbury Road, Broadstone, Dorset
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