Schism stares the Church of England in the face. Deeply conservative by instinct, it has nevertheless taken the radical decision to ordain women to the priesthood. And for the first time in its history it is also confronting a potentially disastrous financial crisis. To investigate the turbulence, Michael De-la-Noy has visited parish churches, retreat houses, theological colleges, rectories and Lambeth Palace. He has talked to nuns, to lay readers, to hospital chaplains and to team rectors. The failures of the Church are large, but so - in the faith and courage of its individual members - are its virtues.