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Unsurprising reactions on Facebook to the  Bishop of St Germans the Rt Rev Hugh Nelson's recent address at the Truro Diocesan Synod. The Bishop laments the decline of church going. Click here to read the piece with its oddly defeatist tone. The three comments below a just a sample of the response.  Bishop Hugh laments the decline in church going.  We’re all aware of the consequences of changes in patterns of belief in this country. We see it in our church pews, in the numbers of children in our churches and in our PCC bank balances. But I think those are the symptoms, not the cause. The real change isn’t that people still believe the same things they used to believe but have stopped going to church because shopping is more fun. The real change is that people believe different things now. it’s not fundamentally that people’s rational beliefs have changed And it’s not fundamentally that people’s rational beliefs have changed - that people have worked their way through the ...

 A transcript of the speech of the Bishop of St Germans, the Rt Rev Hugh Nelson, at Truro Diocesan Synod on 24 September 2022. We’re all aware of the consequences of changes in patterns of belief in this country. We see it in our church pews, in the numbers of children in our churches and in our PCC bank balances. But I think those are the symptoms, not the cause. The real change isn’t that people still believe the same things they used to believe but have stopped going to church because shopping is more fun. The real change is that people believe different things now. it’s not fundamentally that people’s rational beliefs have changed And it’s not fundamentally that people’s rational beliefs have changed - that people have worked their way through the Creed and decided they don’t believe it after all - it’s much deeper than that. The way people understand the world we live in, how we decide what makes for a good life, the values that guide our decisions, what we think happens after...

Transforming Mission finances were again challenged at Truro Diocesan Synod - this time by Peter Holman of Carnmarth North.

 

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It was good today to have a long-planned meeting with the Bishop of St Germans, the Rt Rev Hugh Nelson, and Archdeacon Kelly Betteridge.  A report here in the Western Morning News.

 Nearly three months after the event, the Diocese has now published the minutes of the Synod held on 28 May 2022. Click here to read.   Scroll through to the end for interesting figures on the 2021 financial accounts - and questions by Martin Saunders on inaccuracies and discrepancies - including the fact that the name of the company - The Truro Diocesan Board of Finance Limited - is expressed eight different ways in the document.