Despair about the CofE

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Date posted:  2 Nov 2026
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Dear Editor,

As a Church of England (CofE) vicar ordained in 1995, I increasingly despair at the direction in which the Church I love appears to be travelling.

Over more than three decades I have watched what seems to me to be a gradual erosion of confidence in our core Christian message. Too often the Church appears more comfortable reflecting the priorities and language of a secular society than confidently proclaiming the distinctive faith it exists to represent.

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