The Church of England’s governance shake-up ignores the elephants in the room
by Julian Mann, Christian Today:
It would seem that the Church of England’s higher-ups do not feel that the electoral process is delivering the sort of people they want at the top of the institution. That is if the new report from the (GRG) is representative of how the CofE hierarchy is thinking.
The Archbishops of Canterbury and York want a more streamlined governance structure for the national Church. So they set up the GRG led by the Bishop of Leeds, Nick Baines.
He unveiled the GRG’s proposals on Tuesday. The report is recommending a single body to oversee the CofE under the suggested name of the Church of England National Services, which would take on most of the functions now spread across seven National Church Institutions (NCIs).
These are: the Archbishops’ Council, the Church Commissioners, the Church of England Pensions Board, Church of England central services, the National Society and the two Archbishops with their palaces and staff.
“Whilst we recognise that the Church of England has historic reasons for its fragmented organisational ecology, we have nonetheless been confident from the outset that the status quo in its current complexity is not sustainable or suitable for the Church’s future mission,” the GRG report says.
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