{"id":122922,"date":"2023-09-13T17:34:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T21:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=122922"},"modified":"2023-09-14T06:37:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T10:37:39","slug":"telegraph-church-of-england-parishes-close-at-record-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=122922","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Church of England parishes close at record rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England has been \u201cdealt a death knell\u201d as\u00a0<a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2023\/07\/20\/church-parishes-are-on-the-verge-of-being-lost-for-good\/\">parishes close at a record rate<\/a>, a Telegraph investigation has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 300 have disappeared in the past five years alone, analysis of church data reveals, the fastest rate since records began in 1960.<\/p>\n<p>The startling figures come as a bombshell dossier accused bishops and senior clergy of \u201cputting a gun to people\u2019s heads\u201d to drive through controversial plans to cut costs, merge parishes and cut vicars.<\/p>\n<p>The claims come against the backdrop of\u00a0<a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2023\/06\/13\/archbishop-of-canterbury-decline-church-attendance-failure\/\">declining congregation numbers<\/a>, leaving many clergy afraid to speak out for fear of losing their jobs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2023\/09\/02\/church-of-england-parishes-close-at-record-rate\/\">Read it all<\/a> (one of many threads to catch up on).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Church of England parishes close at record rate <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G9xNCU2O1Q\">https:\/\/t.co\/G9xNCU2O1Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; john milbank (@johnmilbank3) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnmilbank3\/status\/1698250647596912654?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England has been \u201cdealt a death knell\u201d as\u00a0parishes close at a record rate, a Telegraph investigation has revealed. Almost 300 have disappeared in the past five years alone, analysis of church data reveals, the fastest rate since<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=122922\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,199,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england","category-england-uk","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122922"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122926,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122922\/revisions\/122926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}