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.
Our country desperately needs a new sense of what it is to be English to guide our future development, one which will embrace all who live here and not the slogan of racists. True patriotism comes, as Rumsey notes, from realising we do not own the land but that it belongs to God. Renewal will come from an ‘imagined community’ that memory creates.
Why are vicars joining unions and joining doctors and nurses by asking for a pay rise? The centralisation of power at the centre of the Church and the increased managerialism…
Virginia Stourton highlights the problems with ‘House for Duty’ parishes for the Church of England in the 21st Century Read original article here
The Archdeacon does not address his concerns, priests are overstretched in large parishes and have no time for pastoral care and, despite not telling the parishes about their plans, the…
On 4th Aug Radio 4 ‘Sunday’ programme discussed the Diocesan Finances Review. Here is a transcript of the discussion.
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…