Trust offers £1,000 prize for people to explain why they will remain Anglican
Episcopal News Service. August 30, 2011 [083011-03]
ACNS staff
A charity that aims to advance Christianity with Anglican principles has announced a prize of £1,000 ($1,600) for the best 5000-word answer to "Why I am an Anglican and believe I shall remain so."
St. Boniface Trust has been concerned that yet more divisions are being created within both the Anglican and the Roman Catholic churches. Its response is to run the competition, which is open to lay people and clergy of all ages and in any province of the Anglican Communion.
"The trust feels that more attention needs to be paid to the understanding of Anglicanism as a distinctive witness in a time when its self understanding is at a low ebb," a spokesperson for the trust said.
Essay submissions must be received by Jan. 1, 2012, and entries will be judged by two members of clergy. The result will be announced next Easter and the winning essay placed on the trust's website together with other significant contributions.
The St. Boniface Trust was established following the closure in 1969 of St. Boniface College, Warminster. Originally founded in 1860 as a missionary college, from 1948 to 1969 the college was used as the fourth year of training for ordination candidates who were graduates of King's College London, England.
The trust is a small charity "established to advance the Christian religion in accordance with the principles of the Anglican faith in all parts of the world, especially for the provision of education and training of clergy and lay people by the award of scholarships and maintenance allowance or any purpose concerning their spiritual or temporal welfare."
For further details, contact David Prior, secretary of St. Boniface Trust, at secretary@stbonifacetrust.org.uk.