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How Giles Fraser lost and then found himself
His memoir explores both his Jewish and Christian identities May 5, 2021
Between worlds: Giles Fraser at a makeshift church in Calais refugee jungle . Credit: REUTERS/Peter Nicholls/Alamy
Giles Fraser is one of the best-known Anglican priests in the country. But there’s a twist. His father was born a Jew and his second wife is an Israeli Jew (or “a daughter of Israel” as he describes her).
His memoir
Chosen weaves between four different stories. It begins with his breakdown after resigning as dean at St Paul’s Cathedral, after the fierce controversy about the Occupy movement taking over the cathedral’s grounds in 2011. Fraser supported the protestors, but was outnumbered and resigned. It’s not quite clear why this led to such a dramatic breakdown, nor why…
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Giles Fraser: ‘There are advantages to not fitting in’
The Brexit-backing ‘Lefty priest’ and broadcaster opens up about the darkest times of his life – and how he stepped back from suicide
25 April 2021 • 5:00pm
Giles Fraser at St Mary’s, Newington, where he thought about ending his own life
Credit: Andrew Crowley for The Telegraph
“It was horrible.” Giles Fraser, Anglican priest, newspaper columnist, and Radio 4
Moral Maze panelist, is grimacing as he recalls the time, 10 years ago, when he seriously contemplated suicide.
“I remembering being in here” – we are talking in his parish church in London’s Elephant and Castle – “and thinking, ‘would I do it there?’” The 56-year-old father-of-five even imagined one of his parishioners, or his children, finding him.
Chosen by Giles Fraser review â confessions of a priest
In this absorbing memoir-cum-history of the rift between Judaism and Christianity, the former canon of St Paulâs reveals how exploring his Jewish roots saved him from depression
The Occupy protests outside St Paulâs Cathedral, October 2011. Photograph: Ray Tang/Rex Features
The Occupy protests outside St Paulâs Cathedral, October 2011. Photograph: Ray Tang/Rex Features
Sun 18 Apr 2021 06.00 EDT
In October 2011, Giles Fraser became front-page news. St Paulâs Cathedral was surrounded by scores of Occupy demonstrators. The City of London wanted to evict them but as it was uncertain whether the land belonged to them or the cathedral, they sought the permission of the dean and canons. The chapter were divided but the casting vote of the dean led to the eviction of the demonstrators. Giles Fraser resigned on the grounds that the church should not use force to defend its buildings, especially when the caus