Churches are opening their doors and evolving | Letters

Readers respond to Simon Jenkins’ article about dwindling congregations and the importance of preserving our built heritageSimon Jenkins rightly derides the notion of the Church of England as “a national corporation of grandees”, for if the church exists at all, in any meaningful sense, it’s at the local, parochial level (Churches could double as banks, or even serve beer. We can’t leave them empty, 31 December). But this is where Jenkins wrongly, in my view, elides