Known diocesan provision for MSE/worker-priests
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Blackburn Diocese
Relevant page on its website
(one of the better ones)
Carlisle Diocese
Relevant page on its website
Coventry Diocese
Relevant page on its website
London Diocese
Relevant page on its website. It includes this requirement: 'Area Deans should ensure that at least half their deanery chapter meetings in any year are arranged at times when non-stipendiary or self-supporting ministers can attend.'
Manchester Diocese
Relevant page on its website
"There should...be an increasing number of theologians whose vocational position should be in the midst of contemporary society as workers or salaried employees, parliamentarians or journalists, etc, so that they will experience in concrete [sic] form what it means to bear responsibility for secular life ... They should uncover the theological relevance of the most concrete social facts and processes of the sort that can be grasped only by having lived through them with others, deliberated together about them and come to common decisions. ... They would discover for the churches what things in the secular world are 'true, honourable, just, pure, lovely, gracious, excellent, praiseworthy' and help them to 'think about these things'. (Phil 4:8ff). They would help us 'prove what is the will of God, what is good, acceptable and perfect' ". (Rom 12:2).
(Horst Symanowski, Pastor in the German Confessing Church (The Christian Witness in an Industrial Society 1966) Symanowski worked in a cement factory and in construction for a number of years.
"... it is widely recognised that the problem is not non-stipendiary ministry itself but a more fundamental confusion over the prieshood/ministry as a whole. Central to this is the relationship between the ministry of the whole priestly people of God and the role of those ordained to episcopal, presbyterial and diaconal ministries. " [Quote p 92 from John Hind's contribution Varieties of Priesthood ]