What's Up With The Dear Old Church Of England

 

Have you been following the fortunes of the dear old Church of England? Perhaps you have, and you'll have noticed that Sarah Mullally's leftist conventicle's committed to two things, NetZero and Reparations, reparations for slavery. 

Leaving aside the venerable COE's leading role in ending slavery, neither of these two projects come in cheap, they cost money. Shipping over a million Pounds to Africa to buy votes and associated green virtue signaling costs cold, hard, cash.

Even ZeroHedge picked up on the unwholesome story, reminding us that 37 out of 42 dioceses are running deficits, as opposed to 18 in 2019, and that these same dioceses now employ 80% more administrative staff than they did in 2005. All this, while clergy numbers continue to fall. Here's Zero:

"More and more of its funds are being spent on administration in every diocese while churchgoing continues to decline, and less and less is spent on supporting parish clergy," the report says. Its twelve recommendations include cutting the number of dioceses and diocesan bishops to around 30, cutting the money allocated nationally to strategic investments by at least three-quarters, and making deaneries the main budget holders.

The authors also single out social justice projects as "costly" and "extravagant," and say congregations see them as "unrealistic, extravagant, unsustainable and deeply depressing." And of course, the church's woke Net Zero target is insane - the Church wants to reach it by 2030 and, according to the Mail, has a £190 million fund for eco-friendly renovations, but a Church Times report says its own progress report forecasts a cut of about 29 percent from 2023 levels by 2030, short of the target.

The other is... reparations! Project Spire, a £100 million fund spread over nine years, set up after research the Church commissioned concluded that Queen Anne's Bounty, a predecessor of the Church Commissioners' endowment, had links to the transatlantic slave trade. Critics, including the Conservative peer Nigel Biggar, call that research flawed - though of course the Church rejects the charge.

 

Well you know what they say, dear friends, go woke, go broke. That in mind, d'ye think the UK's state Church's fiscal trajectory serves as a parable for the nation at large?

You be the judge,

LSP

So What's Going On In The Church Of England?

 

What an excellent question and I know you're far too busy listening to our beloved Octogenarian Ruler to think much about Old Mother Damnable the dear old Church of England. But here at the Compound we're boycotting the Old Crook and turning night optics to Ecclesia Anglicana, after all, it's Lent. So what's going on. Rev. Dr. Ian Paul sums it up neatly, via Virtueonline:

Since the first report on marriage and sexuality in 1979, in contrast with debates about divorce and about the ministry of women, no consensus for change has emerged. The Shared Conversations and the LLF process have taken up most of the last ten years. The result? We are more anxious, more divided, more uncertain. The fateful phrase 'a radical new Christian inclusion' has unleashed a civil war in the Church.

In that time, adult attendance has fallen 30%, and the decline is accelerating. Child attendance has fallen 40% in the same period. And in the last three years, vocations to ordained ministry have collapsed by 40%. There is a very real prospect that ministry is going to collapse in large parts of the Church of England within the next five years. Where is this on our agenda?

But here is the other stark reality: Other churches are growing. But we are reluctant to learn from them. We now represent something less than 18% of all Christians in a church on Sunday. We have another eight hours scheduled to talk about LLF (Living in Love and Freedom, ie. gay marriage ritual blessings). What it will it produce? More division, more frustration, no more progress. Fiddling whilst Canterbury burns doesn't even capture it.

If we continue this fruitless process, that will be the legacy we leave: the Church of England, a heap of ruins. It is up to us.

 

Quite, and you'll be pleased to know the Church of England feels tremendously guilty about something called "chattel slavery" and intends to send the wymxn priestess gay sex vote buying  (you can't write that, Ed.) vast sum of £100 million to Africa even as English churches are closing and clergy can't afford to keep the lights on.

Nasty at any level

Well you know what they say, go woke go broke, and I guess this exciting dispatch from the War on the Rainbow files vaguely under "Church" and "God."

Just keeping it real,

LSP

Naval Hymn & Pride Month

 

Attention, gentlemen and gentlewomen, the hateful, degenerate, pedophiliac, rainbow corporate stasi excrescence of Holy Pride Month is upon us. So buckle up, it's gonna be a long and nasty ride. What can we do, apart from boycotting Groom & Doom big box stores? Good question and perhaps this helps, via Wild:

Again:

Steady boys, steady, and I'll leave it at that.

 DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP.

Heart of Oak

LSP