The memoir of the man dubbed the "Vicar of Baghdad" Andrew White is something of a legend: a man of great charm and energy, whose personal suffering has not deflected him from his important ministry of reconciliation. Andrew grew up in London, the son of strongly religious parents: by the age of five he could repeat the five points of Calvinism. As a child and young man he was frequently ill, but his considerable intelligence meant that his studies did not suffer. He set his heart on becoming an anaesthetist, an ambition he achieved, only to be redirected by God to Anglican ministry....
The memoir of the man dubbed the "Vicar of Baghdad" Andrew White is something of a legend: a man of great charm and energy, whose personal suffer...