Gabriella Swerling writes that ‘brutal cuts’ to the number of priests in the Truro diocese is leading to a decline in normal church life. She and STP Cornwall produce some analysis of the effects of restructuring.
Emma Thompson writes in The Times about how The Church of England must rebalance their spending to pay priests a better wage.
“The 2021 Governance Review Group report recommended “a new piece of work to explore the reform of the General Synod and Synodical government”. Even if reform is what it takes, I long for us to move away from decisions behind closed doors — for the Synod to be able to discern openly together the common will for the Church as we look to the future. Then we can all agree to put our money where our mouth is rather than find that money has already been promised, and our part as elected representatives is merely to welcome it, whether we want to or not.”
The Daily Telegraph has reported on the backlash in Leicestershire (where a whole-diocese reorganisation is being put forward which would end the parish system with its pastoral care). Leicester diocesan…
There are a number of ways that the old-fashioned model of church avoids some of the pitfalls of celebrity Christianity: There is a willingness to serve difficult communities and be a…
Restoring the Value of Parishes, a research paper written by Esmé Partridge for the think tank Civitas, diagnoses what has gone wrong with the Church of England in recent years, and makes…
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…