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Letters to the Editor | The Telegraph

“One solution to this issue is to take away all administrative and financial functions from the dioceses and put these into a slimmed-down central body accountable to the Church Commissioners. The bishops and archdeacons, thus unburdened from administration and finance, for which they are untrained and unsuited, would focus on Read more…

By Admin, 2 months24 December 2022 ago
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Letters to the Editor | Church Times

“But this rubbish is merely the tip of the iceberg. Let’s stand it up with some figures. In 1959, there were 13,075 stipendiary clergy and 250 diocesan support staff in the Church of England. In 2022, there are 7210 stipendiary clergy and 6500 diocesan support staff. There is the problem Read more…

By Admin, 2 months ago
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The Church of England is neglecting its heart and soul | Emma Thompson, the Telegraph

“Much recent Cofe decline appears driven by a culture at the centre deficient in evidence-based decision-making. The result is that, perversely, parishes are neglected. “Following the money” (as financially trained volunteers from the campaign group I belong to, Save The Parish, have done) shows that the majority of 2021 COE Read more…

By Admin, 2 months23 December 2022 ago
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Letters to the Editor | The Telegraph

“The situation can be salvaged but, as with the NHS, a radical change of direction is required. The closure of churches during the first lockdown was a major error – a missed opportunity to help people in real distress . Now, amid a cost-of-living crisis, there is a similar opportunity.“ Read more…

By Admin, 2 months22 December 2022 ago
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We must cherish our wonderful parish churches this Christmas | Allison Pearson, the Telegraph

This Christmas Eve, when people pour out of the pub and head in a delightful whisky-and-ginger fug to Midnight Mass to belt out their old favourites, they could get a shock. The church doors may well be shut, the vicar elsewhere, conducting a service in one of the other churches Read more…

By Save The Parish, 2 months ago
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Letters to the Editor | Church Times

“Thankfully, not so. In answer to a parliamentary question from Ben Bradshaw MP (PQ 26686) on 28 June, the Second Church Estates Commissioner, Andrew Selous MP, replied on behalf of the Church Commissioners that the 24 per cent of the English population who live in parishes classified as rural by ONS Read more…

By Admin, 2 months19 December 2022 ago
Press Release

Save the Parish Launch Parliamentary Push in House of Commons

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.

By Save The Parish, 3 months15 November 2022 ago
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The impact of being in church buildings | Extract, Telegraph, John-Paul Flintoff

“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 I stopped to sit down – particularly Holy Trinity, Sloane Square decorated by the Pre-Raphaelites Read more…

By Admin, 3 months2 November 2022 ago
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Letters to the Editor | Church Times

“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. There is now plenty of evidence that shrinking the C of E is the obvious outcome of choosing to de-fund and Read more…

By Admin, 4 months24 October 2022 ago
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“May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest”: Elizabeth II and the virtues of a Christian monarchy | Alison Milbank

“That vision of the Anglican Church as an inclusive institution, open to everyone and the priest’s cure of souls extending to everyone in his or her parish, no matter what their faith or lack of it, is increasingly under threat in Britain. This is partly through pastoral reorganisation and partly Read more…

By Admin, 5 months26 September 2022 ago

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synodnews General Synod News @synodnews ·
18h

Tom Woolford moves a number of amendments. 'At the soft and cuddly end of #SaveTheParish amendments' #synod #generalsynod

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lukeappleton 𝕷𝖚𝖐𝖊 𝕬𝖕𝖕𝖑𝖊𝖙𝖔𝖓 ♱ @lukeappleton ·
31 Jan

Other synod members can do as they please, I will be opposing all governance changes. They are a total waste of time and money. #synod #savetheparish

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31 Jan

Bishops in synod is a totally vacuous and meaningless statement. #synod #savetheparish

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lukeappleton 𝕷𝖚𝖐𝖊 𝕬𝖕𝖕𝖑𝖊𝖙𝖔𝖓 ♱ @lukeappleton ·
11 Jan

So we have parishes pleading, scraping and begging to meet their common fund and the national church can find money like this from down the side of the sofa. It is simply wrong and an insult to everyone putting money into the collection plates. #savetheparish

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“Responding to the £100 million fund, Rev @WalkerMarcus, founder of the @SaveTheParish campaign group, said: “Suddenly, the Church has money.

How can the Church have the brass neck ever to ask for another penny from its parishes again?”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/01/10/justin-welby-defends-100m-fund-address-past-wrongs-slavery-churches/

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danielnechtan Daniel @danielnechtan ·
2 Jan

Worried about your Parish Church?

Please read this leaflet and use the template below to write to your MP to #SaveTheParish

https://matthewhighelswick.com/index_htm_files/STP-deanery-leaflet-blk-white-3.pdf

https://savetheparish.com/contact-your-mp/

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