It’s not often we get asked to write something together, so this is newish territory for us. 'You write it,' said one of us, 'and I’ll correct it afterwards.' To which the other could easily have said, 'You write it… and I’ll make it readable afterwards.' But as one is in the pub watching the Rugby and the other is at home writing, I’ll leave you to guess which is which.
So, the commission was for joint authorship; the topic, what evangelicals need to learn post-Makin. Immediately, we encounter our second challenge. One of us has always (since conversion aged 13, anyway) been an evangelical: more precisely a 'Prayer Book Evangelical.' The other never has.
Which is exactly my – or possibly our – point about what we need to learn following the publication of the Makin Review.
