Updated
The Times carries two articles on this:
Should the Church be disestablished? Yes, says Dr Sean Gabb
Should the Church be disestablished? No, says Rt Revd Christopher Herbert
Update Saturday
There is a letter to the editor from Augur Pearce Should Church and State be kept separate?
Baptizing less than a fifth of all English babies..of course it should be disestablished.
The Church of England should follow the Swedish model… of Church disestablishment that is!
re Robert Williams:
“Baptizing less than a fifth of all English babies..of course it should be disestablished.
The Church of England should follow the Swedish model… of Church disestablishment that is!” –
One wonders if Robert’s Italian Church (in, not of) England, baptizes a larger proportion of the babies in England? That might just be a true measure of the RC Church’s influence there – as opposed to that of the national ‘Church of England’.