“What I witnessed last week appears to be an increasingly unattractive spectacle in which procedural methods are used to wrongfoot elected representatives. The Synod is being reduced to a talking shop.”
This has been a tough year for everyone. Death, mental collapse, grief, unemployment. In my church we’ve lost people to Covid — one of the earliest victims was a regular…
“But for now it is time to hunker down, and sit out this social and emotional winter. Those of us who want a return to what we had will have to keep the memory of it alive. Innovations will have to be survived and endured.”
“Like the Trust, the CofE seems to specialise in making things soul-destroyingly difficult for volunteers. Churchwardens and PCC members, like my mother, are expected to bear much of the local…
Ken Costa suggests that the Gen Z and millennials have not turned their back on spiritualism but are seeking different approaches. Including them in any future changes in either capitalism…
Should English Heritage take over the churches or should we pay more to the vicars to allow the Church to be sustainable? Read original article here
“Church of England, please look to your grass roots and the simplicity of Jesus Christ and His message. You seem to be clouding a simple, and glorious, message with complicated managerialism, which makes little sense to those of us who want to love our neighbours and cherish the local.”