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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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…
