No longer frocked
Ian Johnson explains why he has ‘defrocked’ himself
It really hit home to me, when I read Sheila Hancock’s remark (9 October 2009 ), ‘I loathe a man in a frock telling me what to do’. Strangely, because as a minister I didn’t really tell people what to do – except when giving ‘stage directions’ for a wedding or other ceremony. I rather suggested or urged them to consider various courses of action. And surely my cassock was too plain to be called a frock. Still it did hit home.
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