But Project Spire, the Church Commissioners’ proposed £100 million programme of “healing, repair and justice”, asks us to accept much more than an honest historical reckoning. It asks us to move from association to guilt, from guilt to inheritance, and from inheritance to a present financial obligation. Project Spire depends upon a movement from the responsibility of identifiable people to the inherited responsibility of later generations. This is why Project Spire feels less like Christian repentance than the adoption of an imported political theology. The Church of England presents Project Spire as morally sophisticated and ethically responsible.