Faith as held by those identifying with religious institutions is clearly in decline, but the majority still identify with “faith”, though the content of their faith may vary significantly from what has hitherto been accepted as ‘orthodox’. It is, I think, what people believe in or do not believe in that is changing. I sense the majority of members of the Church of England no longer have a deeply internalised sense of the unconditionally present, loving, physical, dynamic energy of the divine, intimately present “Other”, what is identified as the Spirit of God and the integration of the human and the divine in Jesus in Trinitarian theology.
The LLF definition of radical new Christian inclusion is not radical, nor new, nor Christian, nor inclusive
Dr Eeva John talked about the radical new Christian inclusion described by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York in their letter published in February 2017 in a presentation ‘handing over’ the work of the Next Steps Group to the new Synod that will meet for the first time in November 2021. The inclusion offered is not radical nor new nor Christian nor inclusive.