Is the Church of England on the brink of collapse?
by Ian Paul, Psephizo: Last weekend, Nicholas Hellen, journalist at the Sunday Times, published a short piece in which he leaked an internal discussion document and used it to suggest that there is a central plot afoot to undermine the parish system of the Church by cutting the numbers of clergy. Hellen put a number of things together, which added up to a dramatic headline: Church to cut paid clergy as a fifth of flock wanders off (The article is behind a paywall, but you can read it all in...
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