"On its own terms this plan fails": Rev Marcus Walker on Kerrier - Church Times
There are fundamental flaws at the core of the controversial pastoral re-reorganisation plan for Kerrier deanery in west Cornwall, Rev Marcus Walker writes in today's Church Times (8 May 2026): "Let us take all of what the diocese says at face value. If it is invoking an Evangelical reformed tradition of Truro, and itself holds to a reformed theology of the eucharist, what does it think is happening at communion by extension? Ripped from the context of the gathered community at the supper of the Lord, and without any theology of the real presence, what is being offered to the people of God in these services of communion by extension according to its own theology? Cranmer, Calvin, and John Stott would all say the same: nothing. There is no participation in the supper of the Lord on earth or in heaven. Their people have asked for bread and are being given a stone. On its own terms this plan fails; it should not stand. " Click here to read the full Letters' ...