Update from Save The Parish founder Rev Marcus Walker
A message from Save The Parish founder Rev Marcus Walker: Happy new year! We have entered a curious day in the life of our church, as we move into a period of time without an Archbishop of Canterbury. I hope we will all be praying that the man or woman raised up to be the next Archbishop will be a person of deep prayer and have a love for the Church and its people. Emma Thompson, a member of our Steering Committee, has written an excellent article in The Times which you can read here . It concludes with these excellent words: “We need someone who wants to spend time loving and caring for the “downstairs church”. By this, I mean the local places where people actually participate in and fund the Church. The “upstairs church” of bishops, bureaucracy and bluster has become inward-looking and detached from the parishes. It has grown on an indefensible scale. We need a parish-facing, pastoral archbishop, someone with the willingness and leadership ability to halve the “upstairs ch...