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<blockquote data-quote="primmiemoo" data-source="post: 7069235" data-attributes="member: 83588"><p>A great deal of rural church and parish community was eroded when clergy contracts were changed (iirc in the 1990s). Whilst there are many clergy who do go out of their way to work throughout their rural parish communities, there are plenty who, because they don't have to, just don't. Some of the younger ones are so badly trained for work in rural parishes, they seem not even to notice there are more parishioners than the ones who live in the urban bits where their tied accommodation is. The CofE is not a subscriber's club, or congregationalist clique, but that's the way they have gone since the changes - with massive dollops of retail business management methods within the church hierarchy taking the place of focus on parish community spirit and pastoral care.</p><p></p><p>Synod was asked to deal with outcomes of the decline in ordinations and an aging, often ailing clergy in the late C20th by other means than pruning clergy obligations because it was predicted that rural parishioners would be left out of the fold, and that church would be a contributor to damage to rural social cohesion. This has happened. </p><p></p><p>Returning to the OP, the parish churches locally would be unsuitable for food markets because they are kept at such ridiculously high temperatures. The local clergy seem to like it that way, and are too self-centred, and too flitting to understand the cost of fuel they run up, let alone the costs of burning fossil fuel.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="primmiemoo, post: 7069235, member: 83588"] A great deal of rural church and parish community was eroded when clergy contracts were changed (iirc in the 1990s). Whilst there are many clergy who do go out of their way to work throughout their rural parish communities, there are plenty who, because they don't have to, just don't. Some of the younger ones are so badly trained for work in rural parishes, they seem not even to notice there are more parishioners than the ones who live in the urban bits where their tied accommodation is. The CofE is not a subscriber's club, or congregationalist clique, but that's the way they have gone since the changes - with massive dollops of retail business management methods within the church hierarchy taking the place of focus on parish community spirit and pastoral care. Synod was asked to deal with outcomes of the decline in ordinations and an aging, often ailing clergy in the late C20th by other means than pruning clergy obligations because it was predicted that rural parishioners would be left out of the fold, and that church would be a contributor to damage to rural social cohesion. This has happened. Returning to the OP, the parish churches locally would be unsuitable for food markets because they are kept at such ridiculously high temperatures. The local clergy seem to like it that way, and are too self-centred, and too flitting to understand the cost of fuel they run up, let alone the costs of burning fossil fuel. [/QUOTE]
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