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Letters to the Editor | The Telegraph

“The value of the parish system comes from the fact that it can reach out to all sections of the community across England. Yet, as many of your correspondents have pointed out, the parish system is under threat – not, as you might imagine, from external forces, but from within. Read more…

By Admin, 3 months22 March 2023 ago
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Letters to the Editor | Church Times interregnum excuses

No commercial institution would allow such a gap between chief fundraisers. Why does the Church allow it? There is no excuse not to appoint a successor when a fund raiser leaves a parish.  

By Admin, 3 months19 March 2023 ago
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Letters to the Editor | The Telegraph

“In 1959 the Church employed 13,075 stipendiary clergy and 250 diocesan support staff. There are now 6,500 support staff, most of whom are not ordained and have no contact with places where most Christian good is done, and are often on salaries well in excess of the stipends paid to Read more…

By Admin, 4 months ago
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Letters to the Editor | The Telegraph

“The parish system is extraordinary: how many other professionals live alongside those with whom they work? The demands are many. My husband is expected to run a small business, manage a minimal staff team and volunteers, look after a building – these are usually old and often listed – take Read more…

By Admin, 4 months ago
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Letters to the Editor | The Telegraph

“SIR – The Church of England’s director of communications says the Church is “doing everything it can to support its parishes”. How I wish that were true. In the dioceses of Truro, Leicester, Lincoln, Liverpool, Sheffield and others, bishops are planning to merge up to 20 parishes into a single new parish Read more…

By Admin, 4 months ago
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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 to freedom. Our constitution makes no sense without it; our intellectual traditions are incomprehensible without it; even the very idea Read more…

By Admin, 4 months ago
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Letters to the Editor | The Telegraph

“The bureaucracies of the 42 dioceses have grown commensurately. In 2018 the Diocese of Leicester had 108 employees. In 1926, it had only one: the bishop’s driver.” View Original.

By Admin, 4 months ago
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There is something truly counter cultural about Midnight Mass | Marcus Walker, the Spectator

“There’s also something extremely counter cultural in the fact of finding what we need on our doorstep. While our bodies can be fed in vast, soulless out of town shopping centres, our souls not only can be fed locally but are often best fed there. Even when we’re a guest Read more…

By Admin, 4 months ago
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Church of England told to ‘sort its own house out’ before paying slavery reparations

“However, in a letter to the Archbishop, the Revd Marcus Walker, the chairman of the Save the Parish campaign group, said that clergy and lay people are concerned that not enough money is being sent to the Church’s “frontline”. In the letter, seen by The Telegraph, the rector at Great Read more…

By Admin, 5 months11 January 2023 ago
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Justin Welby defends £100m fund to ‘address past wrongs of slavery’ as churches struggle | The Telegraph

“However, responding to the £100 million fund, Rev Marcus Walker, founder of the Save The Parish (STP) campaign group, said: “Suddenly, the Church has money. After decades of telling us that there is no money to fund the churches and priests who keep the Church alive on the front line, Read more…

By Admin, 5 months11 January 2023 ago

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