Thanks to the report, we can list lessons that ought to be learnt by dioceses
contemplating similar actions. A sense of place should never be underestimated. Children in schools rather than in church seem to be counted as congregation. Is this the new policy?
Campaigners hailed the grants as ‘very good news’ – but warned there was still muchwork to be done Read the original article here
“The Save the Parish movement, born a year ago this month, has seen its leaders chided as “rascally voices” by Archbishops, and roundly condemned by certain more excitable bishops (generally…
AN Wilson believes that the Church has lost its soul in the rectory sell off. Thousands of parsonages, now privately owned, once gave every town and village a centre of spirituality…
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In Emma Thompson’s column for The Times this week, she reminds us of the core purpose of the fund now managed by the Church Commissioners and its theological underpinning, in light the General Synod debate this week to reform how funding is used.
“…Instead it could become simply a prescriptive sect: an organisation with an official line which its prelates are expected to toe. If ever there was an effective way to make a church unattractive to all but the dreariest of zealots and and empty its pews still further, this is it.”