The grumbling of high church clergy should now lessen a bit. They were complaining, in some cases furiously, about the Chuch of England’s decision to go further than the law required when it came to the lockdown, telling clergy not to open their churches at all, and not to broadcast services from them. Some were threatening to re-fight the Reformation over the issue, saying that low-church Welby would really rather preach from his own kitchen than admit that churches are a necessary site of authentic sacramental worship. The Church has now relaxed its rules, allowing vicars to pray in their churches and broadcast services from them.
And the Church has started to think aloud about the really interesting question, of how churches should respond to the easing of lockdown. Yesterday the Church in a press release envisaged ‘worship services with limited congregations meeting’, as soon as government advice allows it.
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