Fergus Butler-Gallie Touching Cloth
‘’Ow about a lifetime of being asked whether budgies go to Heaven by strangers on buses?’ This is not the most attractive challenge of priestly ministry but it is part of a witty, readable capturing of it by a young priest whose ministry is sadly now on hold. As the young doctor Adam Kay’s ‘This Is Going to Hurt’ shocked us by his expose of the National Health Service Fergus Butler-Gallie gives a less shocking than ambiguous picture of the Church of England as he stands back from the institution. Butler-Gallie is an accomplished writer and speaker, author of the bestselling Times and Mail on Sunday Book of the Year ‘A Field Guide to the English Clergy’ and the Spectator Book of the Year ‘Priests de la Resistance!’. Fr Fergus has ministered in Liverpool and Central London. His image of the Church has pastoral warmth building from the story of St Laurence who, asked at pain of death to present the treasures of the Church, brought forth not silver but the poor. ‘My ministry – for it is th