Bury Market Place on Remembrance Day. Credit: © Copyright David Dixon and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence
In Rachel Mann’s telling of the story, the traditional, male-centric deity “died in the trenches of the Somme, but the churches will not let him go.” I beg to differ: the patriarchal God didn’t die in the Great War, though in British society we feel little connection to Him today. He wasn’t strafed down in the mud of No Man’s Land or buried in an unnamed grave.
