Supporting This Work; An Appeal-
To my dear readers:
– If you are willing to offer a small amount of financial support for this work, it would be enormously helpful…….
Travel costs, website maintenance, computing and internet equipment are all beyond the reach of my pension.
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Convert or be converted – the challenge for Anglican cathedrals today.
CONVERT OR BE CONVERTED
Three Anglican cathedrals have set out to increase both their appeal to the public and to get more people into the building.
One has chosen a gin festival, another has built a mini golf course over the flagstones where pilgrims have knelt in prayer since the 7th century, and one has built a helter skelter at the heart of the building. Continue reading “Convert or be converted – the challenge for Anglican cathedrals today.”
Cathedrals, helter-skelters, and the sliding scale between entertainment and mockery.
The Right Reverend Dr Gavin Ashenden, former chaplain to the Queen, has criticised the Cathedral for making a “mockery” of God.
“Instead of allowing a Cathedral to act as a bridge between people and God’s presence, instead it obscures it by offering to entertain and divert people,”
