“[The archbishops] must also follow up on their commitment to consider what I think is fundamentally wrong with the parish system: there are too many dioceses. It is impossible to justify the present 42 when, 200 years ago, in the Church’s heyday, there were 26.”
This evening (Tues 15th Nov) over 100 supporters and organisers of the Save the Parish movement (STP) met with MPs to discuss the pressing issues facing parishes up and down the country.
“I carried on drawing. Slowly, I was noticing the world and finding the beauty in it – not seeing the beauty but actively finding it. A lot of that beauty was in the churches where Read more…
“Bishop Richard Llewellin is right that amalgamating parishes into megaparishes is a disastrous strategy that, as the Church’s own research tells us, drives decline in church attendance and giving. !ere is now plenty of evidence Read more…
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