Madeleine Davies

London

Senior Writer at Church Times

Senior writer @ChurchTimes (all views my own). My book: https://t.co/HvynHfzxAl

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Church Commissioners hit back at critics of slavery research

2 days ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Madeleine Davies

THE Church Commissioners have defended the research that they commissioned into whether their funds benefited from the transatlantic slave trade, after its findings were criticised by historians.
Bangor Cathedral Chapter puts freeze on new spending

3 days ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Madeleine Davies

ALL new spending at Bangor Cathedral has been suspended by the Chapter, a Church in Wales spokesman confirmed this week. The suspension was first reported last week by BBC Wales, which linked it to cathedral debts owed to the Bangor diocesan board of finance (DBF). The spokesman said on Wednesday that the suspension had been put in place, “pending a review this week”.
Centre for Church Multiplication moves into subtraction phase

5 days ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Madeleine Davies

THE Gregory Centre for Church Multiplication (CCX) is being downsized in response to a funding gap, and a “significant number” of its employees are being made redundant, the chair of its trustees confirmed this week. Two weeks ago, cash-flow projections indicated that the charity would not be able to continue beyond the end of June, and a redundancy process with staff was begun.
Search for meaning and support brings adults to faith, Evangelical Alliance survey finds

5 days ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Madeleine Davies

THE first Beatitude, addressing those “poor in spirit”, has a contemporary echo in a new survey published by the Evangelical Alliance. It found adult converts to Christianity saying “I needed help with life”, “Looking for meaning”, and “A difficult or painful experience” as the catalysts for their exploration of faith. The results are published in Finding Jesus: Identifying paths to faith in adulthood, published on Tuesday.
St John’s Guild for the Blind responds to concerns

1 week ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Madeleine Davies

THE charity St John’s Guild for the Blind has confirmed that there are no plans to appoint a General Secretary, after concerns were raised about the budget assigned to such a post and the appointment process for it. The Revd Brian Regan, who was elected as the Guild’s chair last December, said this month that, besides there being no such plans, the idea of appointing an “outreach officer” had not been taken further, after being “briefly mentioned last year”.
Church of Scotland at ‘tipping point’ for ‘financial viability’ annual report warns

1 week ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Madeleine Davies

THE concept of tenure for life for ministers is “challenged to breaking point by our changed historical context”, the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland has been told. A proposal for restricted tenure is among the measures being put forward to address what one minister described as a “financial, ministerial, congregational, and denominational crisis”.
Liverpudlians offer prayers for the injured after victory parade collision

1 week ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Madeleine Davies

LIVERPOOL Parish Church today offered the eucharist “with faith in the power of Christ’s healing love” in the wake of a car crash that injured dozens of people on the city’s streets. The incident took place on Monday evening as a parade celebrating Liverpool Football Club’s victory in the Premier League was drawing to a close. Police received reports just after six o’clock that a car had collided with pedestrians on Water Street in the city centre.
How should a Church respond to religious decline and reports of its reversal?

2 weeks ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Madeleine Davies

IN 1984, the British theologian Lesslie Newbigin delivered his Warfield lectures at Princeton seminary, asking, “Can the West be converted?” “Wherever the culture of the West, under the name of ‘modernisation’, penetrates, it carries with it what Lippman called ‘the acids of modernity’, dissolving the most enduring of religious beliefs including the beliefs of Christians,” he observed.
Clergy pensions receive boost under new scheme

2 weeks ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Madeleine Davies

THE clergy pension will be restored to two-thirds of pensionable stipend, at a cost of £900 million, if proposals published yesterday by the Archbishops’ Council are approved by the General Synod. The proposed changes, which follow extensive campaigning by clergy (News, 14 March), would benefit both existing and future pensioners. Those who have already retired would see a pension increase reflecting a two-thirds accrual rate since 2011.
Fairtrade Foundation calls on UK tea-drinkers to ‘brew it fair’ for estate workers

2 weeks ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Madeleine Davies

TEA-DRINKERS in the UK, whose 100 million daily cups cost, on average, two or three pence, are being encouraged to address the “woefully inadequate” wages, incomes, and working conditions of the estate workers. The “Brew It Fair” campaign, launched on Monday by the Fairtrade Foundation, is accompanied by a report setting out how, almost 200 years after tea plantations were established in Assam, many workers face “chronic poverty”.