‘Touching Cloth<\/i> can be compared to Adam Kay’s This Is Going to Hurt <\/i>and the writings of the Secret Barrister’ Observer<\/i><\/p>\n
‘I laughed my way through this…<\/b> Funny, fascinating, and gorgeously humane’ Marina Hyde<\/p>\n
‘Funny and touching in equal measure’ Tom Holland<\/b><\/p>\n
A laugh-out-loud memoir of becoming a 21st-century priest, Touching Cloth <\/i>is also a love letter to the Prayer Book, Liverpool, funerals, cake tins, lager and, above all, to what the Church of England can be at its best. <\/b><\/p>\n
The very word ‘reverend’ inspires solemnity. To be a priest is to dedicate one’s life to quiet prayer and spiritual contemplation. Isn’t it?<\/p>\n
Fergus Butler-Gallie reveals what it’s like to become a priest in the twenty-first century. Find out why black really is slimming, how to keep a straight face when someone is inadvertently hot-boxing a funeral, and which royal-themed biscuit tin can best contain a very loud personal alarm that no one knows how to switch off. Spot a sweet old lady trying to pay for a taxi with coinage from fascist Spain? Congratulations, shepherd, she’s your problem now.<\/p>\n
Behind the daily scrapes is an all-too-human love letter to the Church of England, and the amazing variety of people who manage to keep it going, providing a listening ear, company and community at a time when so many people desperately need it, as well as a reflection on what it means to follow a spiritual path amid the chaos of the modern world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The very word ‘reverend’ inspires solemnity. To be a priest is to dedicate one’s life to quiet prayer and spiritual contemplation. Isn’t it? Fergus Butler-Gallie reveals what it’s like to become a priest in the twenty-first century. Find out why black really is slimming, how to keep a straight face when someone is inadvertently hot-boxing a funeral, and which royal-themed biscuit tin can best contain a very loud personal alarm that no one knows how to switch off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[435],"product_tag":[448,3315,259,15409,6751],"class_list":["post-97438","product","type-product","status-publish","product_cat-biography-hb","product_tag-anglican-episcopalian-churches-church-of-england","product_tag-autobiography-religious-spiritual","product_tag-memoirs","product_tag-religious-social-pastoral-thought-activity","product_tag-worship-rites-ceremonies","pa_book_author-butler-gallie-fergus","pa_cover-hardback","pa_dewey-283-42092-edition23","pa_imprint-bantam-press","pa_language-english","pa_pages-xiii-189","pa_publisher-bantam-press","pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","first","onbackorder","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n