When on holiday the OH likes to visit churches, not so much a religious thing more to soak up the architecture and local history. Called at Mildenhall on the way home yesterday to tick another one off the list. Stood in the beautifully cool nave, staring up at the carved wooden angels, I found myself meditating thus:
1) Churches are uniquely placed in their community to withstand a more extreme climate, notably heat and wind.
2) Many of our churches were built on the back of the toil of farmers.
3) Churches have a pressing need to find ways to be more relevant to an increasingly secular world.
4) The high street shop is knackered. Landlords will use corona as the final straw to turn shops in to houses (which many were originally anyway).
5) Millions of commuters are now ex commuters. Working from home will be the new normal for many, bringing a reversal in the long term trend of villages being dead in the daytime.
Is the time right for churches to host regular food markets ? Does anyone on here live where this happens ? Could anyone who has an involvement in The Church and thinks this has mileage, have a word upstairs, as it were.
1) Churches are uniquely placed in their community to withstand a more extreme climate, notably heat and wind.
2) Many of our churches were built on the back of the toil of farmers.
3) Churches have a pressing need to find ways to be more relevant to an increasingly secular world.
4) The high street shop is knackered. Landlords will use corona as the final straw to turn shops in to houses (which many were originally anyway).
5) Millions of commuters are now ex commuters. Working from home will be the new normal for many, bringing a reversal in the long term trend of villages being dead in the daytime.
Is the time right for churches to host regular food markets ? Does anyone on here live where this happens ? Could anyone who has an involvement in The Church and thinks this has mileage, have a word upstairs, as it were.