The threat to churches’ vital role in society | Letters

Rev Andrew Lightbown on how churches’ finances have been hit by the Covid pandemic, and Fifi Charrington on her village church’s pop-up pubSimon Jenkins is right to regard church buildings as vital to community (If the Church of England worships online, how can its historic buildings survive?, 26 December). One of my churches, St Laurence, Winslow, serves a market town with a population of just under 6,000. In 2019, our average Sunday attendance was 119 and we held 52 “occasion