The Telegraph letters : The Church exists for those who are not its members
Morar Lucas quotes Archbishop William Temple who said that the Church is the only society which exists for those who are not its members.
Morar Lucas quotes Archbishop William Temple who said that the Church is the only society which exists for those who are not its members.
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Read some further comments on +Guli’s lecture about the C of E’s “Vision and Strategy”.
“…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.”
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