Daniel Robinson's Page

Your Anglican Church Body Affiliation (CofE, TEC, AMiA...) - Leave blank if not applicable

CofE

Your Diocese

Gloucester

Your City

Gloucester

Your Parish

Feig/Cathedral

Your parish website

http://www.feig.org.uk

Your Anglican 'Species'

Lay person

Your 'Day Job'

Development Officer for local children's charity

What you do for fun and re-creation?

Eating and Drinking - preparation and consumption. Music - choral to metalcore. Walking, cycling and sitting by the fire. Taking the time to make a proper pot of tea.

What do you see as some of the biggest challenges facing Anglicans today?

The transition from existing parish/diocesan structure to a genuinely integrated 'mixed economy' of church.
Providing the real sense of community that people crave (actually I think this is a huge opportunity).
Resisting the temptation of extremism - not easy when times are hard.
Fostering vocations to the monastic life.
Striking the balance between preserving our heritage and becoming a sanctified version of the national trust.
Moving beyond the catholic/puritan, conservative/liberal, high/low labels of old into something that is respectful of people's history, but moves the beyond these antiquated labels.
Challenging aggressive secularism that prevents faith communities from having any corporate, public expression.

What do you see as some of the biggest opportunities for Anglicans today?

Community (see above)
Seizing the genuine opportunities presented by post modern culture and thought to challenge our own assumptions and engage with those disillusioned by the a/theist pronouncements of utter certainty that characterised the modern period.
Celebrating and sharing our heritage.
The Anglican Communion has grown out of confusion and catastrophe (bit like the church as a whole) - we are coming into a time of weakness, its not always fun, but we may see God that bit more clearly.