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REPORT ON JULY 2023 GENERAL SYNOD by Emma Thompson   This article published in the Daily Telegraph on 20 July 2023 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/20/church-parishes-are-on-the-verge-of-being-lost-for-good/ is a cut version of the report below:   The CofE’s General Synod meeting finished last week (on Tuesday 11 July 2023).  Synod is the body which governs Church Read more…

“THE first challenge is recognising that each rural area is distinctive. Central church bodies tend to view rural churches through urban or suburban lenses. This is to the detriment not only of the life and mission of rural churches, but also, paradoxically, to that of urban and suburban churches. People Read more…