So, it looks like the bishop of our diocese is going to stop funding the chapliaincy at my old college. Right now the diocese funds half the salary, the university the other half and also the physical costs. It brings in a little money too to cover some things.
This has been a major boon to the Anglican church here, I don't think there is any other ministry that brings so many unchurched young people or those who have fallen away from other groups. The college runs a first year great books program, and the traditional worship at the chapel with many academic priests is just a perfect fit for the kids being exposed to the history of thought for the first time.
The chaplain also covers the larger university in their chaplaincy office. But it is a huge bonus that he can be found around the college all the time and there is a real place of worship.
It's political really I think, the bishop wants cookie-cutter "contemporary" worship and is interested in social justice, not any intellectual form of Christianity.
The college may step up to fund the position fully. But I am becoming more and more depressed at the prospects for Anglicanism here. I am thinking that in the next ten years unless the Communion kicks the ACC out, there will be nothing recognizable left here at all.
This has been a major boon to the Anglican church here, I don't think there is any other ministry that brings so many unchurched young people or those who have fallen away from other groups. The college runs a first year great books program, and the traditional worship at the chapel with many academic priests is just a perfect fit for the kids being exposed to the history of thought for the first time.
The chaplain also covers the larger university in their chaplaincy office. But it is a huge bonus that he can be found around the college all the time and there is a real place of worship.
It's political really I think, the bishop wants cookie-cutter "contemporary" worship and is interested in social justice, not any intellectual form of Christianity.
The college may step up to fund the position fully. But I am becoming more and more depressed at the prospects for Anglicanism here. I am thinking that in the next ten years unless the Communion kicks the ACC out, there will be nothing recognizable left here at all.
