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'The Way Forward' Our vision for the Church in Cornwall: That within 5 years, the CofE in Cornwall will be a vibrant, growing, priest–led church with strong clergy representation in each of Cornwall’s historic parishes. Read STPC's fully-costed proposal: t.ly/o_qbw

St Piran is celebrated, not just in Cornwall, but throughout the world on 5th March each year. Local Historian Bert Biscoe tells his story: bbc.in/477syzW 📸 Elizabeth Dale

Today is the feast day for Saint Piran: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pir…

🙏 Mensagem Inspirada em Saint Piran Saint Piran foi um monge humilde e missionário que dedicou sua vida a servir a Deus e a espalhar a fé cristã em Cornwall. A tradição diz que ele veio da Ireland e, depois de ser perseguido por sua fé, confiou totalmente em Deus e foi levado

✅ Gool Peran Lowen ! Chaque 5 mars, les Cornouailles célèbrent leur fête nationale : #GoolPeranLowen, dédiée à Saint Piran, patron des mineurs d’étain et figure majeure de l’histoire cornouaillaise. Mais cette journée dépasse largement la tradition religieuse. Elle est devenue une véritable célébration de l’identité, de la culture et de l’histoire de ce pays celtique. Drapeaux noir et blanc, défilés populaires, chants traditionnels et langue cornique sont au cœur des festivités. Depuis plusieurs décennies, cette fête connaît un renouveau important et rassemble chaque année de nombreuses communautés cornouaillaises. 👉 Découvrez l’histoire et la signification de cette fête nationale de nos plus proches voisins et cousins, et encore trop méconnue en #Bretagne : nhu.bzh/fete-nationale…

The Church Times Train-A-Priest (TAP) Fund appeal has been open just over a week now. Already, generous readers have contributed £10,570.82. (This is in addition to a legacy, which added almost £80,000 to the kitty last year.) Thank you. #trainapriest #Echobox=1772186602" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/…

"The only building that triggered a sense of holy wonder in my Newquay childhood was the Huer’s Hut," writes Graham James 🛖 Read more below 👇 #Newquay #churchnews #churchtimes #faith #feature #Echobox=1771936875" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/…

2/ The places where we worship matter because they provide the threads which bind us to our neighbours and friends and forebears and all the generations to come. They matter because they reflect the love & prayer, hopes & fears of generations.

(The C of E is not unique in this but it is its aping of how other, broken institutions, businesses and bodies choose their leaders and the valuing of the same dead principles which have got us into this mess. We’re called to be different!)

Increasingly clear that episcopal leadership in the Church of England is in meltdown and that the Bench is too weak, faithless and corrupt to do anything. CNCs aren’t working, the ‘senior leadership’ system isn’t working, the culture is moribund. The people of God deserve better.

I am totally with @_F_B_G_ here. The reformation of the episcopacy is now an urgent & necessary step needed to rebuild any trust in our common life @churchofengland Just this morning I was contacted by person who made a safeguarding complaint to @dioceseoflondon about a priest who many of us know to have multiple victims. They were told by Martin Goodwin the Head of Safeharding - who @ArchbishopSarah saw has the person who transformed the safeguarding team in our diocese into a light for the church at large - that they were the only victim & that it was the priest’s word against theirs, even though he will have known those words to be lies…. The question here is of course how much Sarah Muallally knew as the Bishop do London….and then what did about it. That same questions arises in relation to Sarah, @CottrellStephen & the NST of the CofE in relation to the shocking allegations against Stephen Conway. When were they informed? What did they do about? Why have the police acted first? These questions are important to victims, survivors & to those of us who advocate for them. They are also becoming more important for the general clergy & laity of many parishes up & down the entire Church of England. Many of us now feel incredibly badly served by our unelected, unaccountable and not at all got riddable of senior leaders, who appoint one another, protect one another and pay little attention to the teaching of Jesus Christ in relation to power, privilege & position.

An important observation: I know from several examples that the CofE can be capricious: some folk get protected others are relentlessly pursued on similar or minimal evidence. It’s still very much an in house operation.

@MartynPercy @Stephenmevans1 I think all complaints about sexual abuse by clergy, especially senior bishops like Bishops should be made to the police and not diocesan safeguarding authorities. The evidence is the church covers up all the time.

@Stephenmevans1 All other clergy would have been suspended immediately. But bishops get the feathered luxury of three weeks of NST inaction. Until the complainant calls the police. Only then does the CofE act.

🚨The Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme was set to run until 31 March 2026 but the £23 million pot the Department for Culture, Media and Sport put aside for the Scheme has run out – six weeks before the end of the financial year – leaving hundreds of churches in the lurch⬇️

Remember: 45% of all Grade 1 Listed Buildings are churches. They are repaired by the hard work and effort of their local communities and worshippers. For decades the government has ensured that repairs do not carry a 20% VAT surcharge. Not Labour. A betrayal of our heritage.

‘We have been able to release the Rector to manage change’: for God’s sake it’s the cure of souls not the reintroduction of beavers into the wild!

I thought this figure for clergy dispossession might be higher, but then remembered that most reductions in stipendiary posts seem to be done by not replacing clergy who leave/retire

The end of the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme is devastating for UK churches. Claire Walker, our Chief Executive, will be live on @BBCRadio4 at 5:20pm today to share how forcing listed churches to pay VAT on their repairs will lead to more churches falling into disrepair.

🚨Read our analysis on what’s been revealed so far and the implications of VAT for listed places of worship. If you care about the future of church buildings, you need to read this: shorturl.at/iBr5H

Like @Jacob_Rees_Mogg, lots of people ask me how the Church of England can legally spend £100 million on slavery reparations when that money was given for parish churches. The answer is: they can't. It's not just historically illiterate and morally wrong; it’s illegal.