“Thankfully, not so. In answer to a parliamentary question from Ben Bradshaw MP (PQ 26686) on 28 June, the Second Church Estates Commissioner, Andrew Selous MP, replied on behalf of the Church Commissioners that the 24 per cent of the English population who live in parishes classified as rural by ONS gave 44 per cent of the giving of the whole of the Church of England in 2020.”
Dan Hitchens suggests that those churches that stick closest to the liturgy and offer ‘full fat’ faith are most likely to grow. Those trimming faith to fit with culture tend…
John Lloyd takes a look at the state of the church in Scotland.
“Bishop Richard Llewellin is right that amalgamating parishes into megaparishes is a disastrous strategy that, as the Church’s own research tells us, drives decline in church attendance and giving. There…
”At the moment, the regime remains in power, controlling the money, media and message. But something stronger than sullen resentment has been born out of this ongoing safeguarding omnishambles. Some…
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.
Angela Tilby was heartened to see 400 children, completely at home in their parish church, rehearsing the story of Holy Week and Easter, and clearly both enjoying themselves and aware…