Covid has accelerated the push by officials to centralise everything. It is a recipe for institutional collapse
The usually sleepy pages of The Church Times were set alight last month by the suggestion of an impending death: of the parish church itself. And it is a death, implied the Rev Stephen Trott in his article, that would not be caused by the forces of secularisation but by the actions of the Church authorities themselves.
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