For the last 11 years Professor Voas’ work has been used to underpin much Church policy, or that of lobbies like STP. It is therefore all the more striking that he has decided to speak his mind – on the Sunday programme with William Crawley last weekend, and now in this article – about the real state of Church attendance. We are being told repeatedly that there is this thing called a ‘Quiet Revival’, as if the base metal of mere moronic repetition will, by some miracle of rhetorical alchemy, transmute into the glimmering gold of a genuine revival. It… Read more »
Unfortunately we don’t have enough children’s workers to cope with number of children currently attending our Sunday school so the number of children attending have to be capped sadly, despite the fact that we run two Sunday schools each Sunday morning having recently increased the number of congregation from 1 to 2. Pray to the Lord of the harvest!
Anglican in Exile
9 hours ago
‘Heck’ is the operative word, being slang for ‘Hell’. Sadly, in its current and historical structures, too often the Church of England has created a vision of hell on Earth rather than a vision of heaven. I’d suggest good oversight requires a very careful and intentional balance of the power dynamic present in each of the qualities listed by Mark Clavier, maybe something like this: Authority – Accountability Unity – Humility Apostolic Mission – Servanthood Teaching – Tending I don’t see enough sign of this at present in the Church of England, and while the selection of bishops and archbishops… Read more »
For the last 11 years Professor Voas’ work has been used to underpin much Church policy, or that of lobbies like STP. It is therefore all the more striking that he has decided to speak his mind – on the Sunday programme with William Crawley last weekend, and now in this article – about the real state of Church attendance. We are being told repeatedly that there is this thing called a ‘Quiet Revival’, as if the base metal of mere moronic repetition will, by some miracle of rhetorical alchemy, transmute into the glimmering gold of a genuine revival. It… Read more »
Unfortunately we don’t have enough children’s workers to cope with number of children currently attending our Sunday school so the number of children attending have to be capped sadly, despite the fact that we run two Sunday schools each Sunday morning having recently increased the number of congregation from 1 to 2. Pray to the Lord of the harvest!
‘Heck’ is the operative word, being slang for ‘Hell’. Sadly, in its current and historical structures, too often the Church of England has created a vision of hell on Earth rather than a vision of heaven. I’d suggest good oversight requires a very careful and intentional balance of the power dynamic present in each of the qualities listed by Mark Clavier, maybe something like this: Authority – Accountability Unity – Humility Apostolic Mission – Servanthood Teaching – Tending I don’t see enough sign of this at present in the Church of England, and while the selection of bishops and archbishops… Read more »