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Justin Welby’s successor needs to halve the ‘upstairs church’
Emma Thompson considers the type of person the new Archbishop of Canterbury should be and argues that the Church “needs a parish-facing, pastoral Archbishop” who is willing to scale back the “bishops, bureaucracy and bluster.”
Parish Stories
The Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul Fareham – A History of Invasion
The priest-in-charge retired on 1st October 2023. The Bishop arrived the following Sunday 8th October 2023 to announce to the congregation that he had made arrangements for them to transfer to the…
A Parish Success Story
With the help of Save The Parish, St Peter’s Church in Dowland successfully opposed amalgamation!
A Benefice of 18 parishes failed by the Diocese of Norwich
My parish in Norwich diocese is one of the larger parishes in a benefice of 18 country parishes, with one permanent Team Rector (the current one is on extended sick…
Essays
Bishop of Chelmsford challenges the Church’s ‘Vision and Strategy’
In this excellent lecture, Bishop Guli describes post-Covid societal weariness and disillusionment.
Why can’t the Church say ‘church’?
Giles Fraser considers the possibility that the Church of England is losing its identity.
Only chaos can redeem the Church
Giles Fraser is a journalist, broadcaster and Vicar of St Anne’s, Kew. Here he writes about organisation within the Church of England. A few days before Ori Brafman flew over to…