Gifts and Obligations: The Church of England and 'Broken Britain'

How the idea that all of life is gift, and that everyone has gifts to contribute, could transform British society.

Britain is more unequal, more distrustful, and more divided than it was a generation ago. Britain, according to diagnoses from across the political spectrum, is "broken". What is less clear is what to do about it — and who is actually placed to help.

Authors Martyn Snow and Florence Gildea argue that the answer lies not in a new policy but in an older idea: that human communiti...