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Podcast: the Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie on Touching Cloth: Confessions and communions of a young priest

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24 March 2023

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On the podcast this week, the Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie talks about his new book, Touching Cloth: Confessions and communions of a young priest. He is interviewed by Ed Thornton.

In a review of the book for the Church Times, the Ven. Dr Lyle Dennen writes that it “tells the story of his [Fergus’s] first year as a priest at a city-centre church in Liverpool. The book is in the style of a diary following the liturgical year. It is filled with many funny stories of clerical mishaps, and profound spiritual reflections.”

Read an extract from the book here.

Touching Cloth is published by Bantam Press (an imprint of Transworld) at £16.99 (Church Times Bookshop £15.29); 978-1-78763-5753.

The Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie is a writer and priest who has ministered in parishes in Liverpool and central London. His previous books are A Field Guide to the English Clergy (Books, 30 November 2018, Podcast, 7 December 2018) and Priests de la Résistance! (Books, 8 November 2019, Features, 15 November 2019). 


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