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The C of E needs to be managed — but how?

The C of E needs to be managed — but how?

Thursday, January 22, 2026
THE Church of England has become “managerial rather than relational, bureaucratic instead of organic, centralised in place of localised”. So said the Revd Dr Paul Avis in a swingeing article for the Church Times (Comment, 2 January). He characteri...