Yeah, metaphorically helps.
The vicar is a great guy and everything, but one problem... theologically, we don't see eye to eye. He's too protestant. D: He's a bit, well, paranoid about some things, as well. He wanted someone to talk to and reassure him about running MMA and yoga classes, concerned that they might lead way to 'wrong thinking'. That annoyed me. xD I preferred my old vicar more; he was good, a bit more mystical. :3
I'd love to go to the Anglican high mass. I went to one once and loved it! I think wifey prefers it a bit more modern and contemporary, though, but I love the pomp and glamour.
The book is good, it's like Spong but less offensive, yeah.
I'm a bit meh with Spong sometimes. Love some of the things he says, but I feel he turns it a bit, well... dry. And a bit too Protestant-based. It seems to lack the mysticism.