Sunday 13 July 2025
Andrew Brown writes the weekly Press column for the Church Times. His book Fishing in Utopia, a memoir about living in Sweden, won the 2009 Orwell Prize. He is also the co-author, with Linda Woodhead, of That Was The Church That Was: How the Church of England lost the English people, published by Bloomsbury.
The Archdeaconry of Reigate is the largest Archdeaconry geographically within the Diocese of Southwark. It comprises suburban outer London and smaller commuter towns, and beautiful Surrey countryside.
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