The church is one of the more (supposedly) "conservative" Anglican churches in this dumb fucking city. It was given by a woman from the "Centre for Public Christianity", which, I have established, is some sort of "Christian think tank" in this country...
It was utterly, utterly shit. Biggest turnout this church has had in decades, all for this woman to lecture us about how "Akshually, spiituality is the new religion, and Zoomers believe in ghosts, which is like, totally just as good as Jesus and going to church, ya know?"
Half of it was "statistics", and quotes from various shitty "eco-wiccan" authors and other "spiritualists". You could have taken the "Christianity" out of it, and it would have easily passed for a TED talk, or any "insert religion here" "look how woke we are" type speech...
It was horrible.
But the worst was the Q&A session afterwards. Questions were submitted through an app, and were then "voted on for popularity", before the extremely woke rector/host then selected which ones to ask...
None of the chosen questions were "hard hitting". Not one. Instead, they were around "belief in ghosts", "how can the Church atone for its historical sins?" and, "How can the Church claim to want to bring more people in, when it has historically excluded groups such as teh gayzzz?"
No joke.
So then I stuck around for the "discussion session" afterwards, which included free alcohol and snacks (yes, I know), where I was then simultaneously guilted for "Not believing with adequate conviction" and "Not knowing the Church well enough" (by a recently ordained black woman "priest", who I think was also married, because insanity), and then told that "The culture war doesn't exist", and that "Conservative media, such as the Spectator (which I link here all the time) are mean-spirited and smug and bigoted, and if you read them, you must be, too!", by this stupid bitch who gave this lecture...
By this point, almost all the attractive and not-insane young'ns (there were a few, initially) had left, so I decided to fuck off, too. Only to be chased down the street by some psycho old woman who accused me of trying to steal her car, from a nearby house (I'm not black. This is not a regular occurrence. She was just insane. So I just swore at her until she stopped following me, ahaha)... Really capped off my night. A+.
Anyway... For fuck's sake, Anglicanism. This is how you want to stay "relevant" and attract people to your "broad Church".
No wonder it's haemorrhaging people faster than almost any other religious "group". What. A. Joke...
Anglicanism was founded as a tool of the state, nothing more, nothing less. That they've gone from nodding along with the king's demands to seize monastic lands for his own profit & to sanction a divorce every time his queen fails to pump out a male heir, to sanctioning all sorts of modern paganism and the Satanic self-worship & degeneracy we call 'LGBTQ+ pride', should be no surprise. They were never supposed to have the balls to stand up to secular authority & secular trends to begin with, indeed the Acts of Supremacy make it abundantly clear that the CoE has no job except to suck off (or lick) its royal Supreme Governor and enthrall the minds and hearts of his/her subjects to their service forever. The same is true of the other Protestant state/mainstream churches, which is why they all suck and why the only Protestants who even still resemble Christians are the independent/'non-denominational'/Evangelical sorts these days.
It should tell you something that pretty much all the great thinkers of Anglicanism were either those with strong Catholic sympathies (the 'Anglo-Catholic' faction, many of whom are just straight up becoming Catholics now) or those with strong anti-state inclinations (many of whom expressed great sympathy with, or eventually just outright became, Puritans and other 'nonconformists').
The Anglican Church is unsalvageable and doomed to perish, as any church built on foundations as shaky as its own are, and the so-called 'conservatives' in its camp are about as effective as conserving the traditions (which the church's founder Henry VIII rejected) as modern neocons are at conserving theirs. Anyone with sense still in its ranks are outright becoming either Catholics or some other sort of Protestant depending on their personal sensibilities, same as the above philosophers.
You want an example of a state church that was actually cool in even the slightest regard, you basically have to look back to late Roman/Byzantine times. At least that church still burned heretics, had strength enough to drive Emperors to their knees and make them beg for forgiveness after committing great evil (the most famous example being Saint Ambrose excommunicating Theodosius I for having barbarian mercenaries put down a riot in Thessalonica by massacring the Roman citizenry) and donated its riches to help the Empire fight off the Sassanid Persians & Muslims.