A Catechism for the Underground Church
A Catechism for the Underground Church “The Church has to wake up, to read the signs of the times, and start building small communities and networks of small communities, so that when persecution starts, we will be able to continue the life of the Church. Some are doing this now. Here tonight we have Father Daniel French, an Anglican vicar from Salcombe, who is at work on a catechism for the underground church.” Rod Dreher, London speech to the annual Open Doors Lecture November 2022. Four months ago I unwrapped a giant whiteboard for the vicarage study. Every day I would photograph it, print an A4 copy, and then wipe the whole thing blank, and then return to scribbling. What did I fill it with? Yes, there were pearls of wisdom from tomes and lectures, the great and the good like Augustine, Aquinas, Dante, Dostoevsky, Eliot, Lewis, Gerard, and so on. But there were also incidental conversations, life stories, and testimonies of encounters with the living Lord....
