Think Yellow - be ashamed to cut uni chaplaincy posts

Whatever budget challenges society face the church will have to face similar challenges as pension forecasts are down, parish share unpaid, and expenditure outstrips income year on year. Giving is a high proportion of church income, with most of the rest being made up of fees. Unless there is an increase in church-going - not an impossible thing if the American trend to religion comes over here, or if revival breaks out - giving will need to increase or budgets shrink. Shrinking budgets mean fewer parochial clergy, and staff servicing the parishes at diocesan offices, or it means posts such as that of university chaplain will be cut, which is a travesty and a huge impediment to the church's mission. Think yellow, a chaplain whose post has been cut by Winchester diocese, to its huge shame and the detriment of God's church now. http://darksidechaplaincy.blogspot.com/