What are our vicars really thinking?

Mostly, we can only guess what clergy in the Church of England think about any number of hot button issues, but last month The Times conducted a fascinating survey of 1,200 serving vicars, rectors and curates. For the first time in about a decade, we can dig into a much more representative sampling of what the clergy think, on everything from same-sex marriage to the establishment of the church, from slave trader statues to the future of church decline in Britain. Does it matter that three-quarters do not believe Britain is a Christian country any more? Do they expect their own parishes to survive the decline of Christianity in the coming decades? Should the C of E allow gay couples to marry in church? We’re joined by Sam Hailes and Emma Fowle from Premier Christianity magazine to talk through all this, and much more… Read The Times’s survey and feature on it here - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/church-of-england-christianity-survey-gay-marriage-sex-female-archbishop-70ck07sj6