tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35594660.post3509436565070996173..comments2023-12-24T20:48:11.634+00:00Comments on Opinionated Vicar: Churches: the 'New Normal'David Keenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11872644403415655350noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35594660.post-25518845857931256392020-05-29T00:21:06.976+01:002020-05-29T00:21:06.976+01:00Thank you very much for this.
As to diocesan stru...Thank you very much for this.<br /><br />As to diocesan structures, there can be little justification for 40+ diocesan bureaucracies overlain by a central bureaucracy in Westminster, which often replicates the functions of the dioceses. I have elsewhere proposed that all remaining parochial and diocesan assets are centralised in the Commissioners, and all diocesan administration is transferred toFrogholehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17017833849456366817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35594660.post-2787695770146995372020-05-26T17:03:37.656+01:002020-05-26T17:03:37.656+01:00In the midst of all that, it will be interesting t...In the midst of all that, it will be interesting to see what happens to Diocesan structures. Our Diocese had just - the week before lockdown I think - completed a move to new premises as it couldn't fit all its staff into the old one. It has over 50 full time personnel, in a Diocese with around 190 stipendiary vicars, and the ratio of Diocesan personnel to parish clergy has been rising David Keenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11872644403415655350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35594660.post-6702320499230201642020-05-26T00:23:35.993+01:002020-05-26T00:23:35.993+01:00Another consequence from the shift from the real t...Another consequence from the shift from the real to the virtual is a reduction in overhead. Absent sporadic maintenance and insurance costs for buildings, which spike intermittently, but nonetheless yield income via parish share because of the atavism of attendees, the other overhead is the stipendiary clergy. Indeed, the stipendiaries are the main cost centre. When newspapers move online there Frogholehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17017833849456366817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35594660.post-66174241721498524692020-05-26T00:22:26.120+01:002020-05-26T00:22:26.120+01:00Many thanks for the link to these interesting essa...Many thanks for the link to these interesting essays. I agree with the assumption that the return to normal will be heavily delayed. During that time: (i) many former regular attendees will have let church slip out of their weekend timetables and will not return; and (ii) the elderly (i.e., the core of the Anglican demographic) may be too wary to attend in default of a vaccine - an effective Frogholehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17017833849456366817noreply@blogger.com