"...a compelling guide to the politics, feuds and embedded hatreds that now characterise our national church... tells this hilarious and depressing story with asperity and wit... relishes the plot and tells it with the immediacy of good journalism." -David Self, Times Educational Supplement (Book of the Week) "The book will raise new questions over the archbishop's role in one of the most divisive episodes in recent Church of England history... The book discloses the level of animosity shown towards homosexuals by religious opponents." Jonathan Petre - Daily Telegraph "...the ordination of gay clergy is still very much the hottest topic in the Anglican Communion...Bates' book puts the record straight." -Publishing News "The book throws new light on the appointments process itself..." The Door

Stephen Bates is the Guardian's religious affairs correspondent. An Oxford-trained historian, he has been a journalist with the BBC, the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail and, for the last 14 years, the Guardian. He is a regular broadcaster as well as writer, and has contributed to a wide range of publications.

Preface 1. The Sorrow and the Pity 2. The Word Made Flesh 3. In the Beginning Was the Word 4. Queer as Folk 5. Old as the Hills 6. The Day Before Yesterday 7. The Dignity of Difference 8. Doing the Lambeth Walk 9. Then Came Rowan 10. Doctor John 11. Gene Genie 12. Paved with Good Intentions 13. Who Bears the Cost? Notes Bibliography Index