Churches must diversify and adapt to stop the rot | Letters
about 3 months ago (02/09/2024)
Churches must diversify and adapt to stop the rot | Christianity | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation A performer juggling at a circus training school based in St Paul’s Church in Portland Square, Bristol. ‘It’s time that the medieval churches in the UK were renationalised … Once back in state hands, their upkeep can be paid for through the rent raised from any organisation that would like to use them.’ Photograph: Jeff Morgan 06/Alamy View image in fullscreen A performer juggling at a circus training school based in St Paul’s Church in Portland Square, Bristol. ‘It’s time that the medieval churches in the UK were renationalised … Once back in state hands, their upkeep can be paid for through the rent raised from any organisation that would like to use them.’ Photograph: Jeff Morgan 06/Alamy Letters Churches must diversify and adapt to stop the rot Readers respond to an editorial on crumbling churches and reveal how they can better serve communities today Your editorial ( 2 February ) was right to highlight the importance of using churches as “local anchor institutions” and to praise the National Churches Trust report calling for an expansion of the secular uses of church buildings.