“Frontline parish ministry is tough and getting tougher. Clergy cuts mean ever greater demands on the dwindling band of vicars or ‘priests-in-charge’ often running around several churches. How many CofE bishops know how it feels looking after multiple churches with the growing burden of bureaucratic demands from diocesan HQs?”
THE evaluation of a project to transform Wigan into a “missional powerhouse” — which entailed the grouping of 33 churches in a single benefice — has reported mixed success after seven years and the spending Read more…
Ken Costa suggests that the Gen Z and millennials have not turned their back on spiritualism but are seeking different approaches. Including them in any future changes in either capitalism or religious matters would be Read more…
Gabriella Swerling writes that ‘brutal cuts’ to the number of priests in the Truro diocese is leading to a decline in normal church life. She and STP Cornwall produce some analysis of the effects of Read more…
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Bishops beware the Cornish revolt – The Conservative Woman : Inside UK – INSIDE UK NET · 2 April 2023 at 3:09 am
[…] The practical outworking of On the Way seems not to have landed well with parishioners in the Cornwall branch of the Save the Parish movement, which launched nationally in August 2021 and fielded candidates in the elections to the General Synod. […]