“In St Paul’s five bishops were photographed dancing in their cassocks,” reported John Bingham in The Daily Telegraph. It was perfectly true, for the Church Times published just such a photograph, adding the comment: “The Bishop of Willesden, the Rt Revd Pete Broadbent, appears to be a practised pogo-er.”

I had thought that, without the explanation, he might have been taken to be levitating. In earlier centuries that would have seemed the more likely interpretation, since bishops weren’t much known for dancing. In 1925, The Tablet gave what it said was the first description of the dance of the Seises, the boys performing a seguidilla on the feast of Corpus Christi in Seville Cathedral, but the bishop was not moved to join in.

The dancing at St Paul’s, however, fitted into a service at the end of a nine-day “wave of prayer” called by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York for the re-evangelisation of the nation, or “religious revival” as the Telegraph put it, which is not necessarily the same thing. And, despite the pogo-ing, the thrust of the Telegraph’s report, which spliced together various Anglican phenomena, was focused on remarks by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Justin Welby, suggesting that “Christians should not talk to people about their faith unless they are actively invited to do so.”