New programme board to help steer LLF next steps
08/03/2024Lead Bishop gives update to Synod members
Following discussion at the February meeting of General Synod, further details of plans for a new Programme Board to oversee the ongoing work of Living in Love and Faith (LLF) have been shared with General Synod members.
The Bishop of Leicester, Martyn Snow, the lead bishop for LLF, has written to Synod members to outline plans for a new oversight board and the re-formation of three working groups: the Pastoral Guidance Working Group, the Pastoral Reassurance Working Group and the Prayers of Love and Faith (PLF) Working Group.
Synod members have been invited to express their interest in joining the groups which will be formed of bishops, other clergy and laity.
In addition to these working groups, meetings with stakeholders will be organised to help enable progress ahead of a meeting of The House of Bishops’ meeting May.
Two formal groups will also be formed, as agreed following the commendation of the PLF:
- A Pastoral Consultative Group – to aid bishops, diocesan staff and others with answers to the broad questions that arise from the implementation of PLF and other LLF work. This group will comprise a small number of bishops, supported by consultants.
- An Independent Review Panel – to consider concerns about the implementation of the PLF and application of the Pastoral Guidance, and make recommendations for addressing justifiable concerns.
A timeline is being finalised to allow these groups to make progress ahead of the House of Bishops’ meeting later in May, which will feed into the General Synod sessions in July.
Read the full letter to Synod members from the Bishop of Leicester.
Church Times report on this: Synod members invited to apply to join LLF working groups
I think Bishop Martyn is keen to involve a spread of people in the final stages of the LLF project. This seems to me to be a helpful collaborative approach.
If all else fails form a committee or in this case five committees.
Joy, Dean, where is your joy. I have not read anything of joy from you on this site. I wish you some sunshine in your seemingly relentless gloom
I’m sure Fr Dean has plenty of joy in his life he just doesn’t get any joy from watching the CofE deal with LLF, Abuse, Gaza and much else. Many of us used to love the Church of England and can’t experience much joy in watching it destroy itself.
If you want some joy, if you yearn for some leadership, then I urge you to watch this. Cherry Vann would never have been appointed a Church of England Bishop and that is our great loss.
https://youtu.be/M8FxFbsSXa8?si=S62cXR9Zq3SdEph9
You have previously referred to this rather bland, yet warm, “crumpets with matron” predictable talk to a province in terminal decline as something which brings joy? I guess one persons joy is another persons… whatever!
Au contraire Homeless Anglican, it’s difficult not to giggle as the CofE blunders about making so many unforced errors. However I’m not sure that ‘joy’ is le mot juste. TA deals with national and regional issues, but I remember many occasions when I have reflected on the lovely people in my 25 years of active ministry. Can you suggest some examples of what might transport me to a state of rapture?
The gospel, the sacraments, an outward-looking faithful discipled community, a growing thriving church celebrating all these things…… is it too much to ask?
Happy to agree with Fr Dean on this, and many other topics related to dismal performances in, of, by and on behalf of ‘the church’. Titanic deckchairs, dead cats, news management, non-disclosure ‘agreements’, ‘good days to bury bad news, all come to mine at this solemn, reflective and penitential season of Lent especially. It may be thought that to be outwardly joyful in Lent apart from Sundays may be an approach worthy of St Polyanna?
I have to agree with Fr. Dean:
This feels more like reshuffling people around, doing something to look like you’re doing something.
I would love to be proven wrong, CofE top officials.
Off topic, but I’d be really interested to see links/discussion on here on the slavery reparations fund.
I’ll create a new thread for this purpose, to keep the comments separate
It was touched upon deep down the opinion thread on 2 March. Having raised it as an ethical issue the Church declared that it would make available a fund of £100m over 9 years. A cynically opportunistic and performative proposal, therefore. However, it now finds itself hoisted on its own financial and rhetorical petard at just the same time as Synod has pressed for increased pension subventions, and a 7% increase in the basic stipend has been announced. The Commissioners have declared that they want to invite investors to participate in the likely £1bn scheme, and the Church would issue… Read more »
Thanks Froghole, but please could further discussion on this topic be transferred to the new article on that topic.
Apologies for that – I think I posted the above before the new thread was set up, but thank you very much for publishing what I had written, and thank you also for setting up the new thread.
Indeed, David, discussion on slavery reparations would be interesting – but do we really want to give the editors of the daily papers apoplexy?
apoplexy is their natural state…