[Magdalen] Proposed Property Settlement in Episcopal Litigation Turned Down

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M
 
Not quite true - even the smallest rural parish church does do fund raising 
 in the C of E - at least from my experience where I have been a priest 
involved  in the leadership of 42 or so different churches since 2001.
 
People  do leave sizable legacies -  for example New Romney  church  was 
left a house by a parishioner worth I guess about  £300-400K - and that is 
just from my own experience.
 
And even non-church people have been known to leave legacies to the  
churches. Giving is not the perogative of the US Churches.
 
Mind you I will grant you that we don't use as much of our fund raised  
money in funding court cases as you appear to be doing in TEC. But I am not  
convinced that this prophetic lead is not one that we will soon  follow.
 
Blessings
Martin
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In a message dated 16/06/2015 15:59:17 GMT Daylight Time,  
michaudme at gmail.com writes:

England  doesn't really have a tradition of giving (like ours). So English
people  tend to get very confused about this stuff.

They don't have a tradition  of fund-raising, either, which is related and
even more  critical.

When I die, I'll be leaving much moolah to the church. My  grandmother did
the same. And to the church structured as I know it, not  some pretend
church, the Church of the Cagey Usurper.

When I get  home later today I'll hunt down an article about a local church
who  suffered and then, with the help of the local press and the  FBI,
prevailed.
-M