There is much on which to reflect, and much with which to argue, in this engaging and provocative book. Maggie Ross, an Anglican solitary, is trenchantly anti-institutional, anti-dogmatic and anti-clerical. She describes institutional Christianity as a return to the Temple, the post-ninth-century Eucharist as magic, not sacrament, and the tabernacle as “God quite literally in a box”. Like all good polemic, it’s rooted in deep concerns: about the suppression of silence in some quarters, and its trivialisation in others; about spiritual and organisational corruption; about exclusion and exclusivity; about language, and the dangers of trying to express ungraspable, eternal things in words that can only ever be provisional. To Ross, organised religion commits violence on the