[Magdalen] The Theology of Clerical Beards

[Roy Murphy]

https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2016/22-january/features/features/and-esau-was-an-hairy-man

"BEARDS are fashionable again, but the subject of facial hair and the
clergy stirs strong emotions. The bearded King Edward VII, in enjoining
Archbishop Cosmo Gordon Lang to “stop curates wearing moustaches”, gave
voice to the general hostility of the Christian tradition to hair confined
to the upper lip; but there the consensus ends."