Church in Decline | Sir James Burnell-Nugent, The Telegraph
“This is beyond managed decline, it is driven decline.”
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Thanks to C of E accounting, parishes are disappearing | Sir James Burnell-Nugent, The Times
“A 1,000-year-old system of parishes could be collapsed by panic.”
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The Church is acting like the police | Giles Fraser, UnHerd
“But for now it is time to hunker down, and sit out this social and emotional winter. Those of us who want a return to what we had will have to keep the memory of it alive. Innovations will have to be survived and endured.”
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The Church Closers’ Charter must be torn up | Emma Thompson, the Spectator
The demise of the parish system is not inevitable. If the Archbishops are truly ‘passionate’ about the parish, they should tear up the Church Closers’ Charter. As it is, it’s as if they are denying that the revolution is coming, even as they build the guillotine.
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Church parishes are facing a fight for their future | Fr Marcus Walker, The Times
“This is why thousands of grassroots laity and clergy met, in person and online, last week to plot a General Synod campaign to oppose this new plan and remind our…
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The Church is on the brink of revolt | Fr Giles Fraser, UnHerd
“A quiet but unmistakable rebellion is taking place within the Church of England, a groundswell of anger bubbling up from that most British of institutions: the Parish Church. And support…
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Power Grab or Pastoral Measure? Fr Christopher Johnson
“There is, surely, a legitimate question to ask, about how the church reduces its expenditure on buildings and people to make itself sustainable, but the Church of England is not…
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It’s time to rebel – the Church of England is abandoning its flock
Why has Joanna Penberthy still not been sacked? Back in May, the Bishop of St Davids, the most heavenly small cathedral in the world, wrote a post on Twitter about…
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Is this the last chance to save the Church of England | Fr Marcus Walker, The Spectator
“And if we’re going to promise to ‘Save the parish’, let’s use those ‘limiting factors’ as our banners: ‘a building and a stipend and long, costly college-based training for every…
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The Church is abandoning its flock | Fr Giles Fraser, UnHerd
“Secularisation is indeed a catastrophe for the churches. But we won’t outlast this period of history by being more business-like or by adopting slicker models of evangelistic marketing. We won’t…
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Out-of-touch bishops are pushing the Church to the brink of ruin | Emma Thompson, The Telegraph
“Look at their actions over recent months and you could be forgiven for thinking that Anglican bishops are on a mission to alienate their flocks, run down their parishes and…
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Can the Archbishop of York hold the CofE together? | Lucy Denyer, The Telegraph
“It’s hard not to see this overzealous interpretation of Covid restrictions as emblematic of the problems the Church of England has got itself into over the past year in its…
