Our 'collective attitude to buildings' may have shifted, says Truro Diocesan Secretary
Anyone interested in Truro Diocese leadership's thinking on the future of church buildings in the county should definitely take a look at a paper by Diocesan Secretary Simon Cade, presented at the most recent meeting of the Diocesan Advisory Council (DAC). Rev Cade says said that during the Covid pandemic lockdowns, people had ‘learnt to say that “the church is not a building”. The last three years ‘may have shifted our collective attitude to buildings’, he goes on to argue. His thoughts in this short paper (slides below) veer from apparently supporting parish churches to saying that they do not matter, as he draws our attention to what he calls 'four stories'.... The View From the Diocesan Secretary's Office Story, place and buildings in Cornwall 1. During lockdowns we learned to say that the church is not a building This is a theological and linguistic ‘truth’ and it was important to sustain the life of the church when we did not have access to buildings The l