Justin Welby’s “spiritual magpie” plan to save the Church of England (DV) – Archbishop Cranmer.

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There’s a fantastic article this weeks’ Spectator entitled ‘God’s management consultants: the Church of England turns to bankers for salvation‘. It’s the sort of piece that is bound to send many clergy and lay members of the Church of England into a big flap, accusing Justin Welby of attempting to turn their beloved church, with all of its woolliness and eccentricity, into an efficient and hard-nosed organisation full of managerial types who have more interest in numbers and ‘talent pools’ than theology or the pastoral wellbeing of parishioners.

Gillan Scott. Archbishop Cranmer website. 17 July 2015

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  1. There is a world of difference between ‘just managing’ when principled governing is not politically possible, and the setting of intelligent priorities by managerial means when all are genuinely afraid of indecision. “It is better to be feared than to be loved,” Machiavelli advised his prince, but it is best to become the well-loved leader of people in frightening circumstances.

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