OPINION - Will Self: There is a surprising joy hidden within London’s glorious, historic churches
I have a confession to make: while not being a Catholic — or even a practicing Anglican — I’m a regular attendee at evensong church services. In this, I’m my late mother’s son: she was an agnostic like me, but always used to say she found great solace and aesthetic pleasure in attending church. For years — decades, even — I found this a pretty absurd notion. Sure, some churches may have lovely interiors – and in those interiors there may be some pretty lovely music, singing, and even homiletic speechifying – but the fact remains that the non-believer is hardly getting out of the experience what the believer is.