The week of prayer for Christian unity has changed its character over the years. It used to be the ecclesiastical version of birdmen leaping off a beach pier contest; summed up as “see how far you can’t actually fly in a batman or birdman suit before crashing into the sea below after your hubristic impractical leap into the unforgiving air”.
But of late, perhaps more prosaically, it has become more the triumph of cosmetic presentation over reality - to be more topical, a sort of ecclesiastical drag show.
