Happy 3rd Birthday Save The Parish!
Angela Tilby in her regular column last week celebrated the 3rd birthday of Save The Parish. She commented “It was the third anniversary last weekend of the launch of Save the Parish, the…
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Sheep Need Shepherds, not Managers
An essay by The Rev’d Canon Angela Tilby, Member of the Save The Parish Steering Committee Two years the Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich suggested that the job of…
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Church Times: In time of peril, look to Hooker
Angela Tilby ponders the replacement of altars and cassocks by smiley men in suits. Richard Hooker, the Church of England’s greatest theologian, whose Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity was forged in…
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CT: The words we use must speak the truth
Angela Tilby suggests that the Church of England’s marketing speak might misfire. Read original article here
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Church Times article: Parish giving is not a tax that is owed
Angela Tilby points out that a congregation will give to their church, their community and a vision or perhaps a relationship with God or his representative on earth but not…
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Angela Tilby argues that Parishes can say ‘no’ to new Monster Schemes
Angela Tilby points out that these schemes have failed before and parishes can say no. There are other ways of trying to reinvigorate the rural parish system without resorting to…
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Bishops’ unanimity is shameful | Angela Tilby, Church Times
“WE REALLY need to talk about bishops. The recent governance review of the Church of England got a mixed reception in the General Synod last month (News, 18 February). An amendment proposed by the Revd Sam Maginnis was carried, merely “thanking” the Governance Review Group for its work rather than “welcoming” it.”
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Rural-and-urban gap is widening | Angela Tilby, Church Times
“THE depth of anger expressed in recent responses to the so-called “Church Closers’ Charter” — the now infamous GS2222 — reflects a widening culture gap not only between diocese and parish, but also between urban and rural church life.”
