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Speaking to a councillor at a Local Authority, I realised a couple of minutes into the chat that it wasn’t really a conversation – he was simply asking loaded questions to get a ‘vicar supports council policy’ answer out of me.
This post – the third in our series about the “Moral but No Compass” report commissioned by the Church of England looking at the role of the Church in the welfare delivery, is an initial response by David Keen, who writes a column here each week.
David Keen is a Church of England Vicar in Yeovil. He blogs at St Aidan to Abbey Manor.
This post – the second in our series about the “Moral but No Compass” report commissioned by the Church of England looking at the role of the Church in the public square, is a repost of the initial reflections from Alan Wilson, Bishop of Buckingham.
The article was originally posted on Bishop Alan’s blog on Monday 9th June.
This report from the Cambridge Von Hugel Foundation, excellently summarized with extracts by Ruth Gledhill, raises key questions about how the Church of England serves everybody in this country, and the assumptions political elites often make about it.