Blog articles published by guest author

Tim Gorringe

  • A new ecclesia founded on glebe

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    The Church of England is among England’s largest landowners. An estimated 105,000 acres of this is managed by the Church Commissioners of which around 85,000 acres is farmland. An additional 30,000 acres of “Glebe Land” is owned by the Dioceses – managed by individual Diocesan Boards of Finance, following the rules laid out in Church…

  • The Christian attitude to nature

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    Christian theologian Tim Gorringe argues that “To trash or seek to dominate this Creation is not simply unethical but is ‘the most horrid blasphemy’” In his recent blog “Fellow Creatures” Colin Tudge suggests that the traditional Christian attitude to the natural world is inadequate, not to say flawed. Christians, he says, take their lead from…