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...
Read morePriests 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.
Read moreThe 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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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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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…
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…
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…
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.
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…