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Catherine Pepinster on parishes, originally published in Oct 2020

Churches are as important as key workers in a pandemic  Covid-19 has highlighted the vital role churches play in community life, yet they face a crisis in funding CATHERINE PEPINSTER19 October 2020 • 6:00am Sixteen years ago, St Stephen’s Church...

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Letters to the Editor | Church Times Priest vacancies need to be filled. Originally published 19/03/2023

Priests need to be replaced as soon as they leave the parish and the Church should spend more money training priests. Approximately 20% of priests are due to retire in the next 5 years.   View Original.

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Church Times article: Bishop of Truro outlines the guiding principles for his restructuring plans

The Bishop sets his case but does not explain where the lay volunteers are going to come from:  105 local leaders, 30 pioneers and 20 leaders for young people as well as 142 church wardens. Would it not be better recruit...

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Church Times article: Patterns of parish ministry to change completely in Truro diocese

Big changes are afoot in Truro. Against strong local opposition the Bishop of Truro is creating official oversight ministers who may be lay and continuing to reduce the numbers of vicars and grouping churches into ever larger groupings. Where are Read more…

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CT letters: Questions remain as Launde Minster Community is launched in Leicester

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CT letters: Church of Scotland has to make tough decisions as congregations fall

There was also a comment in an article of 4th April 2023 in the Glasgow Times  https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/23433604.amp/ confirming previous reports that poor areas are worst affected by clergy-cutting and the withdrawal of church social care.   The report includes this comment:  ‘The Read more…

By Save The Parish, 5 days1 June 2023 ago
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Christian today article: Clergy cuts and bishops in Parliament

Julian Mann points out that clergy cuts and the 26 bishops in Parliament may not go together once more MPs become of aware of how the hierarchy of the Church of England is rearranging the makeup of the Church without Read more…

By Save The Parish, 1 week29 May 2023 ago
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Church Times article: Parish giving is not a tax that is owed

Angela Tilbey points out that a congregation will give to their church, their community and a vision or perhaps a relationship with God or his representative on earth but not a dictating diocese which is expecting a tithe. Read original Read more…

By Save The Parish, 1 week29 May 2023 ago
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Church Times article: parish giving is not a tax that it owed

Angela Tilbey points out that a congregation will give to their church, their community and a vision or perhaps a relationship with God or his representative on earth but not a dictating diocese which is expecting a tithe.

By Save The Parish, 1 week ago
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Church Times Letters: Why the Launde Minster cannot grow the Church

Alison Millbank points out that an oversight minister will not ‘increase the cure of souls’. Alan Stanley points out that Launde will cause a haemorrhage of good will, people and money.  Sir James Burnell-Nugent points out that there is money Read more…

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