Anglicans should not expect to be mandated to give ten per cent of their income to the church anytime soon, though one of their own priests is advocating they should.
Archbishop of the West Indies and Bishop of Barbados, Dr John Holder, said yesterday: “As Anglicans we don’t do that . . . . We are not locked into any one percentage of giving as Anglicans. We never were, we never will be.”
Holder’s position was in response to a suggestion by New York-based Anglican priest Dr Llewellyn Armstrong in his recently-published book, Let The Church Say “Amen” To Tithes And Offerings.
In an interview Monday, Armstrong told the Daily Nation that since disestablishment by Government in 1969, Anglican churches in Barbados had struggled with financing and he considered tithes and offerings as the only viable means of sustained support.
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