Interesting Quote

Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy
in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the
life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and
understanding their trials by close personal experience.
Stipendiary clergy cut off by training and life from that
common experience are constantly struggling to get close to
the laity by wearing lay clothing, sharing in lay amusements,
and organizing lay clubs; but they never quite succeed. To get
close to men, it is necessary really to share their
experience, and to share their experience is to share it by
being in it, not merely to come as near to it as possible
without being in it.
... Roland Allen (1869-1947), The Case for Voluntary
Clergy [1930]