Why we must stand up against the Bishop's mega-parish
Devastating flaws in the Bishop of Truro's plans for giant benefices in Cornwall have been exposed by a top Save The Parish analyst. Admiral Sir James Burnell-Nugent , a member of Save The Parish's national committee, put the case very clearly to a packed public meeting at Truro Library on Monday. The sweeping pastoral reorganisations in On The Way schemes planned by the Rt Rev Philip Mounstephen and his team threaten to be a disaster, he said. They have failed elsewhere and they will fail here. Read on for the full text: I want to dwell on three reasons why mega-parishes are a very bad idea. And then I want to encourage you to stand up against them: · First reason - there is no financial need for the Bishop of Truro to be doing this to your much loved parishes. · Second reason - these large structures of mega parishes such as are being proposed across the diocese from Kerrier to East Wivelshire are very unlikely to work as intended. They will not bring fruitfuln...