Clifford Longley
Clifford Longley
Clifford Longley is an English journalist and author...
morals public
The Ely Experience: 'Private Morals and Public Truth'
english henry john newman passion roast
John Henry Newman was as English as roast beef, even if he lacked a passion for cricket.
bare language
Its language is as bare as a monk's cell, and as uninviting.
beginning cannot case churches language remember retaining
They cannot make it say what they want it to say. And this is the beginning and the end of the case for retaining the old language: If the churches give it up, who will remember how to say what is said?