It is an enormous frustration knowing that the Church of England is, without a doubt, fumbling its biggest opportunity for a congregation revival in a generation. Just as young people are turning to god and religion in record numbers - amid a much wider desire for identity and finding community - the CoE is still going at 100mph in the wrong direction, towards the twee, Paddington, lanyard class, FBPE, LibDemy identity that already feels so hopelessly out of date. Meanwhile the few notably right-wing-coded vicars I'm aware of - fewer in the CoE, more within the Catholic church - appear to be lapping up the growth of religiosity among young people. What makes it worse is that the process to select a new Archbishop of Canterbury has so far taken 118 times longer than the process to elect a new pope, and we all know they are going to pick exactly the wrong sort of outdated person. Much like most British institutions, the CoE is fatally disconnected from the public. But in many ways it feels more heartbreaking to witness its slide to irrelevance than 'here today, gone tomorrow' political institutions.

What on Earth is “deconstructing whiteness”? @churchofengland And why does this project need a team of 11.