Peter Owen's Journal

New CofE Secondary Schools

The Diocese of Liverpool has announced its plans to convert two state secondary schools into Church of England voluntary aided schools.

Church hopes to take 1,300 school places on the icLiverpool web site

Diocese to take over high schools in the Guardian

Schools to transfer to church control on the BBC

Recycling

The Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority has said it will give support to a joint venture with the Church of England Liverpool Diocese sustainable regeneration and environmental projects. The money will come from an award from the government’s £24m Landfill Tax fund.

Details on the Letsrecycle website.

CofE, RIP

Theo Hobson, writing in today’s Guardian, says that “We are witnessing the end of the Church of England”. This is not for the reasons normally given, but because of differing understanding of the concept of the church. “The evangelicals, ever since the reformation, have been lukewarm about the church’s institutional authority. They see it as a means to an end” - and that is all.

The times they are a'changing

Michael Hare Duke, a former Bishop of St Andrews, writes in The Guardian about how today’s thought world has eroded assumptions of authority.

Myth and Logos

Interesting article in today’s Guardian - Believers in the lost Ark - about the nature of religious truth.