A report on the Save The Parish 2025 conference
Save The Parish co-founder Alison Milbank writes... This is a rather belated report on our 2025 conference. Save the Parish welcomed over 120 people to St James the Greater in Leicester for our conference on October 18th, on the theme, ‘A parish is for life’. We are entering a new stage in our development as an organisation, as we have become part of the solution for the future flourishing of local ministry in the Church of England. The positive focus of the conference reflected this, though it comes after no fewer than four STP centrally supported events in Leicester diocese to protest against the radical removal there of local parish ministry. This event was focused on reflecting on our gains in synod, which Marcus described, as well as the alliances with rural bishops in seeking to rebalance financial resources back to the parishes. Bijan Omrani, whose book about the Christia...