In this age of bloated bureaucracy, pity the poor churchwarden

Mar 17, 2024 by

by Julian Mann, Christian Today: Charles Moore revealed in a recent article in The Telegraph, of which he was formerly editor, that his wife is both churchwarden and treasurer of her parish church. “Martyn’s Law is coming...

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No churchwardens and vacant PCC posts: an investigation into the church volunteering crisis

Mar 15, 2024 by

by Madeleine Davies, Church Times: Elections no longer contested, empty pews — Madeleine Davies investigates IT WAS John Betjeman who (in “Septuagesima”, Poems in the Porch, SPCK, 1954) wrote: Let’s praise the man who goes to light The...

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Number of people giving regularly to parish churches has declined

Mar 15, 2024 by

from Religion Media Centre: The Church of England’s Parish Finance Statistics 2022 shows that the number of regular givers has fallen each year over the past nine years to stand at around 401,000 in 2022 compared with 572,000 in 2013. The...

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Diocese of Leicester: Trailblazer or Portent of what’s to come?

Mar 15, 2024 by

from Anglican Futures: Another “In View of Experience” blog, offering local lessons for the wider Church. Over the past few years, the Diocese of Leicester has attempted the most radical reorganisation of its structure, since...

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Say it loud: silent discos are a crime against culture

Mar 15, 2024 by

by Gavin Haynes, Telegraph: As the UK’s nightlife dies, a fun-free facsimile of it is quietly booming – and making us all look like idiots. In Church Going, Philip Larkin stops in a provincial church, pooters about “in awkward reverence”,...

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What are our cathedrals for?

Mar 14, 2024 by

by Allan Breck, Artillery Row: Changes to the management of cathedrals have obscured the very point of their existence. Sam was cold. He had spent the night in a homeless pod which, being designed to stay warm through the night via the...

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