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  Im basically looking at the church as an institution of discrimination.  Slavery Holocaust Native American Indians Aboriginies Magdalene laundaries Ecocide We should be in an attitude of repentance and humility. How can we be peaceful against this backdrop?  Hence the unsettling peaceI  there is no peace without justice' ...and that peace is not neutrality. It is challenging injustice even when it is in our own institutions, history, story... Church death Callum Brown docb 60s callum brown docb p1 Modern cultural theory?  Now greater toleration?! P2 Denial of church leaders Decline thru reformation enlightenment 4-500 years Numbers Scandals Number of Ordinands  1950s deeply religious! Not in my house! P6 Dirk Martin  Autobiographical Existing mission methadologies 5 Theology Targetting students Ruard ganzvrrort  Church and peace Romans 14  And the heavens are open always  Al  Context of poverty Poverty of relationships Poverty of ...
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Church Death in UK 1. Introduction

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The Methodist church down the road was demolished a few months ago. It was a modern 60s building. It became a pile of rubble and is now cleared and flattened. I felt very depressed. It wasn't my church but it held stories, histories, songs, relationships, sermons that are all gone. It is a metaphor of what has happened to the church in the UK over decades. Who cares that its gone? Will it even be missed? Despite this happening up and down the country the denominations continue in their relentless death throes. This book is about those death throes, why it has happened, and what we can do about it.  The problem " For the first time in a census of England and Wales, less than half of the population (46.2%, 27.5 million people) described themselves as “Christian”, a 13.1 percentage point decrease from 59.3% (33.3 million) in 2011; despite this decrease, “Christian” remained the most common response to the religion question." ONS 2021 The mainline traditional churches are dec...
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