reportAS RESOURCE churches expand across the Church of England, a new report suggests that attention must be paid to dynamics of power, which can sometimes be “masked” by the language of generosity. Last year’s Scolding Report into Soul Survivor (News, 27 September 2024) highlighted issues “relevant to the culture of resource churches”. The new report examines how the “virtues” of resource churches can “tip over intoexcess” and calls for “vigilance and discernment”. A 2021 CARU report on the resource church in Portsmouth concluded that city-centre examples may “continue to be financially dependent on the wider Church”. The story of resource churches is “not one of unqualified success”, the new report says.

Source: The Times July 08, 2025 10:37 UTC