"As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and with no explanation if he can help it."
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The Age of Illusion (1963), ch. 12
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Ronald Blythe
Ronald George Blythe CBE FRSL (6 November 1922 – 14 January 2023) was a British writer, essayist and editor, best known for his work Akenfield (1969), an account of agricultural life in Suffolk from the turn of the century to the 1960s. He wrote a long-running and considerably praised weekly column in the Church Times entitled "Word from Wormingford".
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