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The Church is acting like the police
The Church is acting like the police
Fraser, Giles http://unherd.com/2021/10/will-the-church-fail-like-the-police/
Publisher: UnHerd
Date Written: 08/10/2021
Year Published: 2021
Resource Type: Article
The Revd Canon Alan Billings, who used to be a parish priest -- and taught me theology at Vicar's training college -- is now the Police and Crime Commissioner for South Yorkshire. He recently wrote a piece, in which he suggested that the Church could learn a valuable lesson from the mistakes made by the police.
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Both organisations, for example, require visibility in the community. But the police, under financial pressure, have closed one local station after another, and replaced "bobbies on the beat" with hubs covering increasingly large areas that serve multiple communities. The Church, he argued, is about to try something similar. And it will end in tears.
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