A summary of the key points surrounding the recent report on ‘New Things’, followed by a transcript of the ‘Sunday’ programme on Radio 4 on Sunday 25th August.
What Good Looks Like and How to Campaign Positively for the Parish System A talk given by The Rev’d Canon Professor Alison Milbank at the Save The Parish Spring Conference. April 2024. What a…
Sadly, there is a loss of nerve in our episcopal leaders, who have lost faith in their own practices and who believe that an embrace of centralised management techniques will…
The Rev Dr. Paul Avis reviews the Once and Future Parish. The parochial Church of England invites participation in the means of grace and aims to turn seekers into eucharistically…
Alison Millbank points out that resource churches can work well within parishes but wishes that leaving so many smaller parishes to languish is misguided. Read original article here
Alison Millbank points out that an oversight minister will not ‘increase the cure of souls’. Alan Stanley points out that Launde will cause a haemorrhage of good will, people and…
“That vision of the Anglican Church as an inclusive institution, open to everyone and the priest’s cure of souls extending to everyone in his or her parish, no matter what…
How Village Churches Thrive: A Practical Guide. Church House Publishing, 2022, £9.99. ‘So, if anything, I think many rural churches are rather like spring bulbs, ready for the right conditions…
Our country desperately needs a new sense of what it is to be English to guide our future development, one which will embrace all who live here and not the slogan of racists. True patriotism comes, as Rumsey notes, from realising we do not own the land but that it belongs to God. Renewal will come from an ‘imagined community’ that memory creates.