Butler-Gallie’s wry memoir of his work as a Church of England priest is warm and rewarding, if tinged with disappointment When the young clergyman Fergus Butler-Gallie was asked, by the curious and the insolent, “What made you become a priest?” – with a variety of different emphases depending on the interlocutor – his stock answer was to reply: “Well, I heard that black was slimming.” Yet, as he subsequently...

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