A quote from Ruth Gledhill of The Times:

The chilling thing about Anglican warfare is that participants are too well-versed in the Word ever to need to resort to true expletives. Instead, we try to murder each other with the sharp veneer of Christian civility honed through decades of service on parochial church councils.

Well, the current goings-on in the USA and Canada, where real splits and legal proceedings are now under way, show some worldwide Anglicans in a slightly different light. But in the Church of England which I know and have a love-hate relationship with, Ruth’s description still seems to fit.