In response to criticism by Tom Driberg in his first scoop in the "Daily Express" that this "strange new sect" involved members holding hands in a circle and publicly confessing their sins (a fabrication according to those who were there), the "Daily Express" printed a statement by Canon L.W. Grensted, Chaplain and Fellow of University College and a university lecturer in psychology bearing "testimony not only to general sanity … but also to [their real effectiveness. Men whom I have known … have not only found a stronger faith and a new happiness, but have also made definite progress in the quality of their study, and in their athletics too."