The Six Pilgrims The Six Pilgrims last had a stipendiary priest over thirty years ago. Since then we’ve worked very well with four “house for duty” priests who have mostly…
Ossington is one of six rural churches forming the Beck and Trent Benefice in mid-Nottinghamshire, in the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham. The church was a peculiar, though some years…
Our group of 14 parishes and 11 churches is very well looked after by our much-loved Rector Revd Mandy. She is well known throughout the benefice and the four primary…
We experience a complete lack of leadership from the diocese and from the Anglican Church in general. Instead we have aimless and sometime unintelligible directives from them that bear little…
Save the parishes The Esk parishes :- We are in the Brampton Deanery of Cumberland The proposal from the Diocese is that we become one huge mission community centralised on…
Until the 1950s the pay of parish clergy was immensely varied, depending on the endowment of the parish. The Vicar of Chelsea was paid far more than the parson in…
Last year or so we got a wonderfully dynamic priest of about 38 years old. There was a problem because when he applied for the job, he did not tell…
I have been part of my Parish church for 50 or so years. My Church is a small 11C village Church.Before Covid I wrote to my vicar if it was…
This is a fairly typical story. Unfortunately we had no return address so we could not answer. Questions rather than a story? We have a new incumbent A who is…
The Six Pilgrims in rural Somerset is a little benefice of 750 souls and six churches; one CofE school, no shops and now just one pub. For the last 30…
On the 31 March 2023, The Church Times carried a leader suggesting Money to turn the C of E more outward looking. Announcements of new funding under the umbrella of…
Steps in the Destruction of a Parish Church: St Jude’s Shirley Warren in Winchester diocese. This sad story is worth reading in its entirety to make you aware of how…