Unlike most diocesan in-house magazines Ely Ensign contained up-to-date news stories and features written by professional journalists who gave their time voluntarily.
Replying to the criticism the Bishop of Ely Stephen Sykes defended the campaign in The Ensign and rejected accusations that it was blasphemous.
"[4][5] The discovery of a memorial window at the USAAF Museum in Savannah, Georgia, which featured a UK Cambridgeshire church, led to an unusual story about the revival of a wartime romance.
American fighter pilots in the 457th Bombardment Group based at Glatton, near Peterborough, during the Second World War had used the neighbouring Conington village church as a landmark during their bombing raids over Germany.
[6] A resident of Glatton, Sarah Baines, read the Ely Ensign article, and was reunited with her former American forces sweetheart whom she had not met for sixty years.