A member of the Committee for Minority-Ethnic Anglican Concerns (CMEAC), Bishop Cottrell has previously warned that the Church was \u201cgoing backwards\u201d on ethnic diversity in its leadership (News, 17 July 2015). \u201cThere is still racism in our Church,\u201d he told General Synod. \u201cIt is high time we woke out of our sleep and realised we are guilty of complacency and neglect.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, he said: \u201cOur record is not good: there is no point in pretending otherwise.\u201d He dared to hope that, \u201cwhen I do hang up my mitre . . . the Church will look different.\u201d The Bishops enjoyed a \u201csignificant power\u201d in making appointments, he observed. \u201cWe need to use it much more generously and wisely, to bring more people round the table. . . We will be a much better stronger Church for being more diverse in leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bishop Cottrell has also warned that the Church\u2019s stance on same-sex relationships means that it is \u201cseen as immoral by the culture in which it is set\u201d and has suggested that prayers of thanksgiving for these relationships \u2014 \u201cperhaps a eucharist\u201d \u2014 should be offered (News, 17 March 2017).<\/p>\n
In a diocesan-synod address in 2017, he warned of the \u201cmissiological damage that is done when that which is held to be morally normative and desirable by much of society, and by what seems to be a significant number of Anglican Christian people in this country, is deemed morally unacceptable by the Church. . .<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a> (registration).<\/p>\n \u201cI simply don\u2019t find England to be a nation of atheists. We are obviously not a nation of churchgoers either; but we are a nation of people who are hungry for meaning”https:\/\/t.co\/JLpdRH51it<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Church Times (@ChurchTimes) December 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n