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Managing decline is pure humbug | Canon Eric Woods, New Blackmoor Vale
“The parishes- the backbone of the Church of England- are now regarded as little more than milch-cows providing through the Diocesan Share a crippling tax which allows the centre to experiment with more and more alternative models which are simply failing to deliver new worshippers.”
The Church of England is blighted by bureaucracy | Various, The Telegraph
“In our rural deanery, we have five parishes in vacancy, and another five to become vacant soon.”
Ministry areas are no success story | the Church Times
“Even the Church of England’s 2021 paper GS 2222 acknowledged (para. 35) that “Anecdotal evidence from Wales suggests a super-parish type model has not worked well.” It added “but there is an absence of hard data.” Where is there any empirical evidence that mega-parishes are more viable and sustainable than the local parish system?”
