‘Just as different clothes shops cater to different women, so perhaps different churches cater to different Christians’

While Veronica Zundel reminds us Jesus taught we will be judged by how well we lived the Christian life, rather than our church style, she believes that there is room for all the different types of church in existence today

When I was single and lived in central London, I attended the local parish church, which shared a vicar with the next parish. The church I belonged to was traditionally ‘low’, while the other parish was regarded as ‘high’. I vividly remember a salt-of-the-earth member of my church saying: “We’re Protestant here, they’re Anglican up at the other place”! They were both Church of England, but to her they might as well have been different denominations (eventually the two parishes merged by special permission of the Queen, and all worship moved to the ‘high’ parish where we continued with our essentially middle-of-the-road style).