The misguided priorities of church authorities
This has been a tough year for everyone. Death, mental collapse, grief, unemployment. In my church we’ve lost people to Covid — one of the earliest victims was a regular…
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Holy relic: what will be left of the Church of England after the pandemic? | Emma Thompson, Spectator
A clergyman admitted to me that he’d recently burst into tears. He’d received an email from his diocese in this latest lockdown ‘strongly urging’ vicars to close their churches. He…
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Is the Church of England determined to kill to the parish church? | Giles Fraser, the Telegraph
“The parish has long been the jewel in the Church of England and where Christianity binds its most stubborn forms of resilience to secularisation. Which is why it’s such a tragedy that the parish is now under threat from those whose very job it should be to defend it.”
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The CofE needs to be leaner and fitter | Stephen Trott, Church Times
“The difficulties posed by the coronavirus crisis have exposed many fault lines and weaknesses in organisations around the country — and the Church of England is no exception.”
