'"If you think the world is mad", he told me, "then you'd better get out of it quick"'Raymond Raynes was born in London in 1903. He went to university at Oxford, joined the Anglican Community of the Resurrection as a monk and in 1932 was assigned to their establishment in South Africa. Here, in the township of Sophiatown, he became known as a champion of African rights in the streets and in the courts. In 1943 he was recalled to be superior of the community at Mirfield in Yorkshire.I met him in 1950. An old friend invited me to spend a ... (more)

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