The road to Book Pyre Beacon

The cult of Woke has old roots, deep in the mulch of evangelical intolerance

MY LITERALLY maiden aunt was a censorious miserly bitch whose hobbies and interests included sly denigrations of her sister-in-law (my mother), sponging, confecting vinegary ketchup which took the enamel off teeth and insisting that her drab house was not in Evesham. It was in Bengeworth, the part of that town on the left bank of the Avon. She thought Bengeworth had been relegated and took it as a personal affront. The name Kitty sounds cuddly as a cat with a toilet roll. She wasn’t. Her toponymic pettiness was a display of knowingness. She was pious because, as Joyce had it, “no man would look at her twice”. St Peters, Bengeworth, is today “a Resourcing Church which forms part of our response to God’s call to be Kingdom People”. No, me neither. “Have…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2021

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