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Articles > 2012 > 13 July > Reviews > Book reviews >

Less a strategy, more a lifestyle

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 @ 00:44

Philip Welsh reads a priest's reflections on the work of a parish

Ministry without Madness
 Gordon Oliver
 SPCK £9.99
(978-0-281-06364-2)
Church Times Bookshop £9.10 (Use code CT833)

IT IS unnerving to find that the cover photo for this book - a church tower and a bus seen across the Vauxhall Bridge Road - is precisely the view from my front door, and then to ...

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