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Is there a wind of change in the corridors of Church House in Westminster? Is SMMI money substantially repackaged SDF money?
Is there a wind of change in the corridors of Church House in Westminster? Is SMMI money substantially repackaged SDF money?
There was also a comment in an article of 4th April 2023 in the Glasgow Times confirming previous reports that poor areas are worst affected by clergy-cutting and the withdrawal of church…
“SIR – The Church of England’s director of communications says the Church is “doing everything it can to support its parishes”. How I wish that were true. In the dioceses of Truro,…
“The Anglican Church’s current strategy is hastening the demise of the parish church, which already struggling to survive in the context of a changed population….Those of us who are keeping…
When Channel 4’s Cathy Newman summed up the Church of England’s John Smyth scandal as showing that ‘the church had neither process nor kindness’, Justin Welby agreed. The Makin review into the church’s handling of the abuse allegations against Smyth shows what happens when things aren’t done by the book.
This New in the North report was commissioned to give a sense of developments with new worshipping communities in 2023 and to inform discussions about helpful next steps. They found…
“[The archbishops] must also follow up on their commitment to consider what I think is fundamentally wrong with the parish system: there are too many dioceses. It is impossible to justify the present 42 when, 200 years ago, in the Church’s heyday, there were 26.”