CT article: inflation hits parish income
Read the original article here THE number of regular givers in the Church of England has fallen since 2013 by 30 percent — 172,000 — statistics published by Church House,…
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DT article: CofE is treating volunteers abominably and they choosing to walk or operate under the radar.
The Church needs to take a scythe to the administrative burden which currently demotivates volunteers. As a Church Times leader this week observed, “The Church’s strategists really do have to…
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DT article: Church volunteers and church wardens are disappearing
Critics say the volunteer shortage comes as wardens face mounting workloads and bureaucracy as they struggle to support overstretched vicars who increasingly have to represent more than one congregation. Read…
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FREE Access to the Church Times in March
Articles in the Church Times are normally behind a ‘pay wall’ that allows non-subscribers to download only 3 articles per month. As a gesture to encourage more readership, for the…
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The Times letter: The Church has become a bland bureaucracy instead of doing God’s work
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DT letters: The growing chasm between the CofE and its members
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DT article: Madeline Grant: The Church leadership is destroying the CoE I love.
There are two institutions: the Rev Dr Jekyll of parish volunteers and clergy, and the Rev Mr Hyde at the top. Read the original report here
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DT: How can rural parishes join the war on terror?
Even in the bad times through which we are living, the chances of a terrorist attack in rural England are vanishingly low. Charles Moore asks whether churchwardens should really be…
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DT article: 100 Churches receive funding boost
Campaigners hailed the grants as ‘very good news’ – but warned there was still muchwork to be done Read the original article here
