Deanery Synod tonight and we have to discuss the possibility of losing stipendiary clergy. Our diocese is in an interesting place, we have more priests than we ever have... But many of them are self supporting, volunteers. They are wonderful people, sacrificially giving up their time to help others.
It sounds like a brilliant idea but volunteers are not so biddable, not so flexible, and can't do funerals on a Monday morning!
So tonight we begin a journey into strange new world. For me as a stipendiary vicar it may well be as one of my colleagues said a case of turkeys voting for christmas.
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