The Church leadership is destroying the CoE I love
by Madeline Grant, Telegraph:
There are two institutions: the Rev Dr Jekyll of parish volunteers and clergy, and the Rev Mr Hyde at the top.
For an organisation that prides itself on bringing the Good News to people, you can’t move for terrible headlines about the Church of England; from the Diocese of Birmingham’s hunt for a “deconstructing whiteness” officer, to the Church Commissioners’ report calling for the fund of £100 million earmarked to atone for historic slavery to be increased to £1 billion.
Incidentally, the report also calls for the CofE to apologise for “seeking to destroy diverse African traditional religious belief systems” and replace them with Christianity. In a crowded field, this might be the most insulting part of all. Each year, thousands of Nigerian Christians are murdered by groups like Boko Haram for a faith that the report apparently believes wasn’t worth spreading.
Some, who mistakenly view the Church of England as a unified, coherent body – may therefore delight in the shrinking congregations and generally low morale that defines it nowadays. I delight in none of these things, because I love the CofE.
Look more closely though, and you’ll realise that there is not one Church of England – but two. There’s the Reverend Dr Jekyll, the one who performs invaluable work on the ground; burying the dead, visiting the sick, educating more than a quarter of our nation’s schoolchildren to a much higher standard than the state normally achieves.
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Read also: I’m so furious about the Church embracing this £1bn slavery reparations nonsense it’s keeping me awake at night by Steven Glover, Mail Plus
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