Monday, July 07, 2008

Giving As Partners: how to get over quota without penalizing your diocese

http://ugleyvicar.blogspot.com/2008/07/giving-as-partners-how-to-get-over.html

[The Ugley Vicar] 7 Jul 2008--At the All Souls meeting on July 1st, Archbishop Peter Jensen challenged the delegates to find ‘English solutions for English problems’.

The first task is to identify English problems — what is it that is causing the Liberal drift and the continuation of the Liberal hegemony in the Church of England? Having done that, we just might be able to come up with some solutions.

One of the problems that has been addressed in the past is funding. In many Anglican dioceses, funding of ministry is achieved via ‘centralized pooled funding’ — usually referred to as ‘quota’ or ‘family purse’. In principle this is a good and ‘Christian’ way of doing things. In practice, it is not only inefficient and ineffective, as Archdeacon Bob Jackson argues in his book The Road to Growth, but it also means that ministry is funded irregardless of its content — orthodox or otherwise.

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