Save the ParishSave the Parish
  • Home
  • About
    • About STP
    • Mission Statement
    • STP Manifesto
    • Who’s Who
    • Quotes of Support
  • Resources
    • Research & Evidence
      • CofE Finance – Aggregate
      • CofE Finance – by Diocese
      • Diocesan Stipends Funds
      • Studies
      • Parliamentary Questions
    • Parish Help
      • Parish Pack
      • ‘How to Object’
      • STP Literature
      • Support Contacts
  • News & Articles
  • Save the Parish in Parliament
  • STP Publication
    • EssaysEssays published by STP on behalf of their authors. Please contact us if have one of you own you would like published.
    • Parish Stories
      • Parish Stories
      • Submit Your Parish Story
  • Join
    • Join Individually
    • Join As An Organisation
  • Get Involved
    • Suggestions for Supporters
    • Volunteer
    • Stand for Election
    • Events
      • Current Events
      • Past Events
        • Save the Parish in Parliament
        • STP Summer Conference 2022
  • Contact

Save the Parish

Essays

More are escaping to the country | Extract, Church Times, Brian Castle

“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…

By Admin, 2 months21 December 2022 ago
Parish Stories

Exeter Diocese Common Fund | Exeter Diocese

The PCC have therefore decided that continuing payment of the Common Fund (2023 – £7,754) is unsustainable and, until they know the cost of stage 2 of the repairs to the tower in July 2023, they will limit their Common Fund contributions to £100 per month from January to June 2023.

By Save The Parish, 2 months16 December 2022 ago
Parish Stories

Renovating away history | Durham Diocese

St Cuthbert’s Darlington has been awarded £2,000,000 by the CofE to renovate the building and to appoint a pioneer chaplain, youth worker, operations director, and director of music, all for a period of 5 years. The current congregation is very small, and the aim is to make the new payroll Read more…

By Admin, 3 months25 November 2022 ago
Essays

The long fight to protect the parish | Anthony Jennings

Save our Parsonages (SOP) was founded in 1994 as a result of deep concern in the parishes about the number of fine rectories and vicarages that were being sold off against their wishes and without prior discussion.  Our aims are a) to make the Church understand the value of its Read more…

By Admin, 3 months23 November 2022 ago
Parish Stories

Commemorating Queen Elizabeth II in a Cotswold Parish | Gloucester Diocese

 In the Diocese of Gloucester’s Cotswold parish of Saint Peter, Willersey with Saintbury, the announcement of the most sad death of Our Sovereign Lady, Queen Elizabeth initiated an urgent and thoughtful conversation between Churchwarden and Tower Captain.  Arrangements were immediately in hand to raise the Saint George’s Flag to half-mast Read more…

By Admin, 3 months4 November 2022 ago
News & Articles

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
Parish Stories

The hierarchy must wake up and smell the coffee | Bath & Wells Diocese

We are in a benefice of four churches and have been in vacancy for two years. There are three benefices in this deanery amounting to eleven churches, in vacancy. In an adjoining deanery there are three benefices in vacancy – perhaps ten or twelve churches and in another adjoining deanery Read more…

By Save The Parish, 3 months28 October 2022 ago
Parish Stories

Parishes are the best source of pastoral care | Canterbury Diocese

What has been achieved in this year [by STP] is very inspiring and hopeful.  People do care passionately about their local churches and local ministry based in the parish church is very often the most effective manner in which we can provide pastoral care and share the Good News of Read more…

By Admin, 4 months21 October 2022 ago
Essays

The Changing Face of the Church of England | Ian Pusey

It hardly seems possible that, in a few weeks, I will be celebrating fifty years since ordination to the priesthood – and so will Tony Mortimer! We left Salisbury Theological College on the same day, went our separate ways for 35 years and in 2006 found ourselves washed up on Read more…

By Admin, 4 months13 October 2022 ago
News & Articles

“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

Posts navigation

1 2 … 9 Next

#savetheparish

synodnews General Synod News @synodnews ·
18h

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

Reply on Twitter 1623278770416230400 Retweet on Twitter 1623278770416230400 Like on Twitter 1623278770416230400 Twitter 1623278770416230400
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

Reply on Twitter 1620481985427963904 Retweet on Twitter 1620481985427963904 Like on Twitter 1620481985427963904 Twitter 1620481985427963904
lukeappleton 𝕷𝖚𝖐𝖊 𝕬𝖕𝖕𝖑𝖊𝖙𝖔𝖓 ♱ @lukeappleton ·
31 Jan

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

Reply on Twitter 1620481835468992514 Retweet on Twitter 1620481835468992514 Like on Twitter 1620481835468992514 Twitter 1620481835468992514
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

Save the Parish @SaveTheParish

“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/

Reply on Twitter 1613085570653093890 Retweet on Twitter 1613085570653093890 Like on Twitter 1613085570653093890 2 Twitter 1613085570653093890
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/

Reply on Twitter 1609709572389748738 Retweet on Twitter 1609709572389748738 Like on Twitter 1609709572389748738 1 Twitter 1609709572389748738
Load More

Save the Parish

Save the Parish is a not-for-profit, registered limited company with company number 13837420 at registered address

Great St Bartholomew Parish Office, Church House Cloth Fair, London, England, EC1A 7JQ
Join STP

Click to join Save The Parish


  • Home
  • Manifesto
  • News & Articles
  • Join
  • Privacy Policy
Hestia | Developed by ThemeIsle