Evensong: Reflections on the Church in England Morris Richard
Evensong: Reflections on the Church in England Morris Richard Parish churches have been at the heart of communities for more than a thousand years. Since the idea of 'church' is its people, the…
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Evensong: Reflections on the Church in England Morris Richard
Parish churches have been at the heart of communities for more than a thousand years. Since the idea of 'church' is its people, the buildings are becoming husks - staples of our landscapes, but without meaning or purpose. But now, fewer than two in one hundred people regularly attend services in an Anglican church, and many have never been inside one.
In Evensong he searches for what it was that drew his father and hundreds like him towards ordination as they came home from war in 1945. Some churches are finding vigorous community roles with which to carry on, but the institutional decline is widely seen as terminal.Yet for Richard Morris, post-war parsonages were the happy backdrop of his childhood. Along the way we meet all kinds of people - archbishops, chaplains, campaigners, bell-ringers, bureaucrats, archaeologists, gravediggers, architects, scroungers - and follow