Fresh from his excoriating analysis of the Church of England's institutionally racist structures in Ghost Ship, A.D.A France-Williams unveils the ways that colonial and imperialist mentalities have crept into the church, and the particular theologies which underpin them As they turn the local into the general, and the diverse into the bland, the Church of England's flagships, France-Williams argues, are another symptom of an institution that has never quite rid itself of its old obsession with empire-building.