Today I received a letter sent on behalf of the trustees of Church in Society confirming the organisation will cease at the end of March and that staff have been made redundant.
As to the future, the letter states:
The two dioceses will continue with their own social responsibility and pastoral work.
It is just as I feared (see 25 February post): the work is to be farmed out, fragmented and will be ineffectual. What an utter shambles. It's a b****y disgrace.
No positive option for the poor in Kent then as far as the Church of England is concerned. As it debates women bishops and issues concerning genitalia it has lost sight of the heavy burden placed on it to support the poor and needy in our society.
As one cleric put it:
The moral test of any society is how it treats its most vulnerable members. The poor have the most urgent moral claim on the conscience of the nation. We (the Church) are called to look at public policy decisions in terms of how they affect the poor.
I wouldn't gamble the family silver on the expectation that the Church of England will perform likewise in Kent.
KENT COMMUNITY ACTIVIST: acerbic, carping, caustic, curmudgeonly,critical, cynical, grumpy, moaning, sardonic and plain speaking.
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