Why can’t the Church say ‘church’?
Giles Fraser considers the possibility that the Church of England is losing its identity.
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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…
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Unherd: Giles Fraser looks at managerialism in the CofE and the Post Office
Archbishop Welby supported Rev. Vennells for the position of the Bishop of London shortly after she had overseen the disaster at the Post Office despite her lack of parish experience….
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Unherd: Has the Church stopped working?
Giles Fraser suggests that the Church cannot be treated like a failing company: ”the more we run around like headless chickens, the more desperate, and less attractive we look. Inevitably,…
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Christianity is about so much more than Christmas | Giles Fraser, the Telegraph
“But, actually, Judeo-Christian assumptions have underpinned every aspect of life in the West for roughly the past thousand years, shaping the way we think about everything – from art to law, morality…
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The Church’s war on clergy | Giles Fraser, unHerd
“Bishops have been captured by management.”
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The Church is acting like the police | Giles Fraser, UnHerd
“But for now it is time to hunker down, and sit out this social and emotional winter. Those of us who want a return to what we had will have to keep the memory of it alive. Innovations will have to be survived and endured.”
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The Church is on the brink of revolt | Fr Giles Fraser, UnHerd
“A quiet but unmistakable rebellion is taking place within the Church of England, a groundswell of anger bubbling up from that most British of institutions: the Parish Church. And support…
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The Church is abandoning its flock | Fr Giles Fraser, UnHerd
“Secularisation is indeed a catastrophe for the churches. But we won’t outlast this period of history by being more business-like or by adopting slicker models of evangelistic marketing. We won’t…
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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.”
