Thanks to the Church Times for publishing, in what would normally be Angela Tilby’s diary slot, my little meditation on the Cranmer Awards finals, the Book of Common Prayer, social class, and (while we’re at it) Islam.
Charlie Mutton on the left with the Diocese of Salisbury’s other Cranmer Awards senior finalist, Rueben Fisher from Dauntsey’s School.
“The Prayer Book’s language conjures a beauty that touches the heart, and yet still feeds the intellect. We are fools if we neglect its enduring power to nourish Christians in their earthly pilgrimage.”
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It was written as a celebration, in part, of the senior title in this year’s Cranmer Awards coming back to the Diocese of Salisbury thanks to Charlie Mutton from Poole. We also managed a second place in the Junior Section thanks to Sherborne’s Cosmo Mills (a potential future winner), and I was also very proud of our Junior and Senior entrants from this end of the Diocese, Izabela Sullivan and Rueben Fisher from Dauntsey’s School.
