{"id":127213,"date":"2024-02-26T17:15:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T22:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=127213"},"modified":"2024-02-26T18:18:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T23:18:47","slug":"church-times-silent-discos-and-luxury-retreats-are-needed-to-restore-canterburys-finances-says-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=127213","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Silent discos and luxury retreats are needed to restore Canterbury\u2019s finances, says Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Againat a background of running costs of \u00a330,000 a day, and an income down by \u00a31 million a year since the pandemic, the Dean of Canterbury, the Very Revd David Monteith, has defended the decision to hold silent discos this month.<\/p>\n<p>Dean Monteith also suggested that there was a \u201cgentle evangelistic dimension\u201d to such events&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>A 1990s silent disco was held in the cathedral for two nights this month, eliciting criticism from some quarters after footage was shared online. An online petition (\u201cAnglican Deans, stop turning our great cathedrals into nightclubs\u201d) has collected more than 2600 signatures. It was organised by a Roman Catholic layman, Dr Cajetan Skowronski.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2024\/1-march\/news\/uk\/silent-discos-and-luxury-retreats-are-needed-to-restore-canterbury-s-finances-says-dean\">Read it all<\/a> (registration or subscription).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I looked at the scale of the financial challenge facing cathedrals, as highlighted by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/liturgicalben?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@liturgicalben<\/a> in a recent article.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Our commercial activities utterly subsidise our worship.\u2019<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eo1NXJ0fj9\">https:\/\/t.co\/eo1NXJ0fj9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Madeleine Davies (@MadsDavies) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MadsDavies\/status\/1762100288666615869?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2024<\/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>Againat a background of running costs of \u00a330,000 a day, and an income down by \u00a31 million a year since the pandemic, the Dean of Canterbury, the Very Revd David Monteith, has defended the decision to hold silent discos this<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=127213\">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":[324,199,183,184,108,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england","category-england-uk","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127213","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=127213"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127221,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127213\/revisions\/127221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}