17 January 2004

New provincial structure for the CofE?

Talking of bishops and management of the CofE, If you go to the Church Times Website and feed in the following details on the search facility [actually just the author and the "features" category will get you there]:
"To find a new direction for the Church, use a map". 28 March 2003. "Gareth Miller"
You will find an article proposing a radical redrawing of the provincial and diocesan map of Anglican England. Part of the proposal is that by doing so we encourage diocese and bishops to work together and to share resources provincially [a bit more like ECUSA -which administratively seems to have something going for it]. So why not lookat this while we're about it? -nah! The CofE doing something radical and visionary? Sorry -wrong planet.

Christian England? Maybe not...

I've just read an interesting blog article from Paul Kingsnorth . I've responded to it elsewhere with regard to its consideration of...