{"id":362,"date":"2008-09-01T11:39:34","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T15:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=362"},"modified":"2008-09-01T11:39:34","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T15:39:34","slug":"evangelism-cofe-style-hic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/evangelism-cofe-style-hic\/","title":{"rendered":"Evangelism CofE style. Hic!"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Telegraph<\/a>
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The first “director of hospitality and welcome” at an English cathedral has unveiled far-reaching plans to make its operations more business-like.
\nMark Hope-Urwin, a former executive with the John Lewis deparment stores chain, has been recruited by Birmingham Cathedral to oversee a radical change to its image and branding.
\nHis plans, revealed today, include a chain of city-centre wine bars and “loyalty cards” for regular worshippers to obtain discounts at the cathedral’s shops.
\nThe new approach to attracting and retaining worshippers could become a blueprint for dioceses across the country
\nThe wine bars would feature stained-glass windows, pictures on a religious theme and be decorated in “episcopal purple”.
\nThey would be intended to raise the cathedral’s profile around the city, and would represent a significant departure from current practice, which is limited to bookshops and cafes in some cathedrals and churches.
\nThe plan comes after the Association of English Cathedrals accused the Government of having a secular agenda \u2013 as it fails to provide “proper” financial support to cathedrals, despite providing large grants to museums.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In vino veritas.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s good to see the Church of England getting down to its core business at last. Forget all the nonsense about heaven, hell, sin, atonement, resurrection and redemption. It\u2019s really all about the wine \u2013 after all Jesus turned water into wine \u2013 and the good old CofE, after 500 benighted years, has seen the light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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