“The answers by the Bishop of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich, the Rt Revd Martin Seeley, to the General Synod (11 February) point to the essence of the financial dilemma being addressed by development of an uncosted Vision and Strategy alongside the massacre, through ever more mergers and closures, of parishes that are the source of £1 billion of funding.”
‘Friendless’ churches that are abandoned or have fallen into disrepair find help against the odds “An ancient and beautiful church fulfils its primary function merely by existing,” he (Ivor Bulmer-Thomas) believed. “It is, in itself, Read more…
To resurrect the Church, try the gospel truth. Faith thrives when worshippers are given Chrisianity in the raw rather than the liberalism of the CofE hierarchy. Read original article here
Should religion be kept ‘raw’ and ‘deep’ ? Read original article here
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