Religion: Heathenish Britain

All good Anglicans had something to think about last week: the Church of England's Commission on Evangelism had proposed a fiveyear, $800,000-a-year publicity program "to help [convert] Eng land to the Christian faith." It was hardly news to most of them that England — or any other "Christian" country — stood in need of conversion. But, coming from the staid Church of England, the flat statement was a bombshell.

In its 172-page report, the commission found that the state of religion in Eng land has fallen so low that bold, modern methods (i.e.,...

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