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1 day ago · THE pressure of parish share can cause anxiety, shame, and embarrassment among clergy, according to the latest report from the ten-year Living Ministry study.. Trust That God Will Work His Purposes Out: Wellbeing and change management in ordained ministry, a qualitative study, builds on an earlier quantitative report, Holding Things Together: Church of England clergy in changing times (News ...

1 day ago · THE Church Commissioners’ allocation of £100 million to address the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade is “poorly justified, historically uninformed and overall inadvisable”, a new report from the thinktank Policy Exchange concludes.. The Case Against Reparations: Why the Church Commissioners for England must think again was written by Charles Wide KC, a retired Old Bailey judge ...

Jan 8, 2025 · THE question whether clergy should become employees could be asked this year, the Archbishop of York has said, on his first day holding the primatial functions of the Archbishop of Canterbury.. In an “Epiphany letter” sent on Monday to all clergy, lay ministers, and congregations in the Church of England, Archbishop Cottrell writes first of the need to “become a safer and more ...

Jan 17, 2025 · Fears for St Ethelburga’s, in shadow of skyscraper. A PROPOSED 54-storey skyscraper in the City of London will harm St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation, situated opposite the site, the former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Williams has warned. In a letter quoted in The Daily Telegraph this week, he writes: “Loss of natural light, building works over some five to six years, general ...

6 days ago · Theos: ‘Social prescribing’ can improve health outcomes. THE part played by churches and faith groups in “social prescribing” — connecting people to community-based activities to benefit their well-being — presents a possible pathway for improving health outcomes, a new report from the think tank Theos has found

Jan 28, 2025 · The Church Times. Bishop of Warrington breaks silence over Perumbalath allegations. THE Bishop of Warrington, the Rt Revd Bev Mason, has identified herself as the bishop who made allegations of misconduct against the Bishop of Liverpool, Dr John Perumbalath, who resigned earlier on Thursday

Jan 15, 2025 · THE “huge variation” in attendance trajectories between churches and dioceses suggests that growth is “hampered more by constraints on the supply of church than by falling demand”, a new report on the Northern Province concludes.. New in the North: New worshipping communities in the Northern Province 2023, by the Ven. Bob Jackson and Dr Bev Botting, draws on Statistics for Mission [SfM ...

Aug 13, 2024 · DIOCESES have jettisoned the use of the word “church” in describing the “new things” being established in their parishes, raising questions about what theology is being applied in the Church of England, an independent report says.. New Things: A theological investigation into the work of starting new churches across 11 dioceses in the Church of England reports that, in the past ten ...

Nov 8, 2024 · Jesus taught us to love our neighbour, but, in saying this prayer, the challenge of living this out is brought into an even tighter focus: the person who is my neighbour who says this prayer with me, is a member of my family, my household.They are my brother and sister.. As ever, Pope Francis himself has expressed this with beau­tiful simplicity.