“The parishes- the backbone of the Church of England- are now regarded as little more than milch-cows providing through the Diocesan Share a crippling tax which allows the centre to experiment with more and more alternative models which are simply failing to deliver new worshippers.”
“The story of our parish is echoed around the deanery. Last week, a visitor told me that none of the churches in Wigan were happy. I can believe this. Revolution is in the air.”
I agree that society is secularising. Yet the job of the church is to supply and train ministers (who, as the article goes on to observe, should preach scripture with…
The day before Synod, the “Save The Parish” (STP) movement held a conference reasserting the value of parish churches “in action” in local communities. Senior Church representatives joined over 100…
In Leicester Diocese, Framland Deanery, which has 48 parishes, 30 have voted not to enter the scheme, 7 are hesitating and only 5 have voted to join a minster community.
What has been achieved in this year [by STP] is very inspiring and hopeful. People do care passionately about their local churches and local ministry based in the parish church…
There is no excuse for the continuance of the interregnum for stipendiary clergy. Read original article here