Daily Telegraph letters: call on Parliament and Church Commissioners to intervene
There should be vicars in the parish, the Church Commissioners and Parliament need to take an interest and the Church needs to amend its rule book.
There should be vicars in the parish, the Church Commissioners and Parliament need to take an interest and the Church needs to amend its rule book.
Morar Lucas quotes Archbishop William Temple who said that the Church is the only society which exists for those who are not its members.
Angela Tilby in her regular column last week celebrated the 3rd birthday of Save The Parish. She commented “It was the third anniversary last weekend of the launch of Save the Parish, the…
“This is why thousands of grassroots laity and clergy met, in person and online, last week to plot a General Synod campaign to oppose this new plan and remind our…
Giles Fraser suggests that the Church cannot be treated like a failing company: ”the more we run around like headless chickens, the more desperate, and less attractive we look. Inevitably,…
The Christmas Spectator’s excellent leading article “In Defence of Faith” mentions the local parish in its final paragraph. You can read the original article at the Spectator here.
Emma Thompson thinks that the CofE is facing an existential crisis, manifesting itself in fewer bums on seats and a chronic lack of volunteers. Many dioceses are compounding and accelerating…