'Are you ready ?'
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article42737
- Author
- Singh, Graham (Graham Andrew), 1977-
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2020 June
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2020 June
- Volume
- 146
- Issue
- 6
- Page
- 5
- Notes
- "As a pandemic rings in dramatic changes across the world, Canadian churches will face long-deferred decisions -- but some signposts point us to glory". https://bit.ly/2ySLRzQ
- "Visit anglicanjournal.com for more Anglican perspectives. From finding strength in the Psalms to the post-pandemic future of the church".
- "God’s people have held on through the ages, and we’re going to hold on now! Our buildings, however, might not make it. We’ve known this for about 40 years. Of Canada’s 15,000 churches with buildings, some 5,500 reported financial operating deficits over at least one of the past few years. This number is set to triple in 2020. And with the arrival of COVID-19, one must (and we are obligated to) wonder: What about 2021? What can you hold on to, what should you let go of and what is the shape of what might be coming after? How as parishes and dioceses will you respond to the swarming property ravens ready to claw up vulnerable churches? Herewith are several areas of thought". "First, our buildings must be deeply shaped by more than our current forms of worship. We know we need to “share our space.” "Second, we need a totally new financing model for doing this." "Third, WWCD. What would Cranmer do? We must begin with repentance. This repentance needs to be in front of secular charities, municipalities and our children, who are deeply angry with us." "Fourth, what kind of leaders do we need for this task? I daresay, it is not clergy." "Fifth, if we release the false idolatry of our buildings, church might actually be more effective and more fun. What if we could use our buildings, but not be controlled by them? What if we could be prime tenants in our own historic spaces?" "Sixth, stop blaming the bishops, archdeacons, left-wingers or right-wingers."
- Subjects
- COVID-19 (Disease) - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- COVID-19 (Disease) - Economic aspects
- Church buildings - Anglican Church of Canada
- Anglican Church of Canada - Finance
- Anglican Church of Canada - Structure
- Anglican Church of Canada - Strategic planning
- Organizational change - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada