| # | Name | Comments |
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| 251 | Dr Caroline Friswell | As a P/T Anglican ordinand doing the MATM course, now in my third year, I have been greatly distressed by the marked deterioration in the stock held by the Durham Cathedral Bookshop over the past year. As a result I have been buying many books through Amazon which, in the past, I would have bought in the Bookshop. |
| 252 | Bill Harland | |
| 253 | James Ambrose | I have lived and worked in many places around the country and always enjoyed the support and friendship of SPCK bookshop staff in Durham, Exeter, Cambridge and Chester especially. It is difficult to describe the anguish we have felt over the loss of gracious service from these people and places. At the very least please repair some of the damage and restore the Durham shop. |
| 254 | D Denham | |
| 255 | James Francis | I agree with everything stated. The bookshop and its skilled staff are a vital resource for broad based learning and training relating to theology, religious studies and Christian discipleship. |
| 256 | Joan Mary harland | it is very sad to see the shop in such a state. |
| 257 | Liz Stevens | I worked in the SPCK for 18 happy months, and am very unhappy that it has been left to get into such a state. the cathedral surely have no option but to step in and save their gift shop. Visitors to our Cathedral in Durham see the shop as part of their experience. the Dean must do something to save the shop and the cathedrals reputation! |
| 258 | Reverend Mary Essex | Ex SPCK staff. A very sad situation. My thoughts are with all the staff who have been treated so badly |
| 259 | Ken Durose |
| 260 | Richard H. Britnell | |
| 261 | Natalie Jones | I am not Christian, but I do enjoy visiting cathedrals and entering into intelligent religious debate. A few years ago, when I visited the Durham Cathedral Book Shop, I was pleasantly surprised by the breadth of reading materials to be found, not just on Christianity, but other religions, and different approaches to faith.
I was shocked, however, when visiting the book shop on a recent trip to Durham, to see not only how few books there were, but to find of the scope of titles to be very limited.
I am dismayed that a former centre of education has been taken over by fundamentalists who have run the business so badly that the staff cannot order any stock because of unpaid suppliers.
The Brewers as destroying an important part of the Cathedral as surely as a suicide bomber might - they are just taking a longer way about doing it, like some kind of infectious mold destroying an old, beautiful piece of stone.
Fundamentalism is fundamentalism, not matter what denomination of belief it belongs to. |
| 262 | David Wilkinson | The United States Bankruptcy Court has thrown out Mark Brewers application to file for the bankruptcy of St Stephen the Great LLC, a company trading in England. If Mark Brewer believes this company to be bankrupt why is the company still a registered Charity? Why is the company collecting tax relieved Gift Aid donations? Why is the company continuing to trade? |
| 263 | Maurice Simmons | |
| 264 | Rupert Kalus | |
| 265 | Meg Gilley | In the past I would spend £500-600 a year at the Durham Cathedral shop on books for myself and items for my churches. Now the items I want are not available and the range of books is much reduced. |
| 266 | Canon Moira Tate(lay canon emerita) | It is very distressing to find the book shop in its present depleted state, having been such a well stocked facility with helpful friendly staff. and hope it can be restored to what it was. |
| 267 | stephen bissell | |
| 268 | Linda Ross | |
| 269 | Briony Williams | As a lay Orthodox Christian (a convert from Anglicanism) I am appalled at what has been going on. It will reflect very badly on the Orthodox Church in Britain, and will kill off for a generation any hopes of a revitalised and indigenous Orthodox Church in these islands. Please put an end to this now! |
| 270 | Anonymous | I am very saddened to note the decline of a once fine bookshop. |
| 271 | Ruth Dickinson | |
| 272 | Jane Cook | |
| 273 | David Baxter | I think it is astonishing that here should be a business within the cathedral that refuses to pay what it owes to others - staff and businesses - and that letters sent to the cathedral authorities go unanswered. These are not Christian acts. |
| 274 | Anonymous | |
| 275 | Colin Bradley | |
| 276 | Jon Swales | |
| 277 | barbara baumgart | |
| 278 | Westley |
| 279 | Revd Jon Russell | What has been done to this and other SPCK bookshops is a scandal and a disgrace |
| 280 | Carole Lloyd | I have not supported the Durham Cathedral bookshop for some time now due to the ethos of the owners and the depleted range of books available. It is a great sadness to me that a once excellent resource has been destroyed and I find the way that the SSG Group have treated staff, who many people found a great source of help and advice, appalling.
As soon as this situation is resolved satisfactorily I shall start supporting the shop again. |
| 281 | Áine Ryan | |
| 282 | josh moatt | |
| 283 | chris heath | |
| 284 | Rachel Ward | |
| 285 | Gareth L Davies | Loss of the SPCK shop at Birmingham made a difference to tutoring local preachers, and keeping informed. |
| 286 | Stephen Humphreys | |
| 287 | Anonymous | from someone who knows about the way the Brewers have run the bookshops and treated staff in other parts of the country. |
| 288 | Richard Dimery | I am amazed that a business representing a public face of the cathedral refuses to pay what it owes to others - both staff and businesses. What has been done is unChristian and brutally unfair. |
| 289 | Anonymous | |
| 290 | Belinda Letby | |
| 291 | gareth phillips | |
| 292 | pat malham | |
| 293 | Damian Boddy | To have a poor quality resource in the midst of such excellence is a terrible shame |
| 294 | Richard Long | |
| 295 | steve thackray | |
| 296 | Jackie Kirkham | How sad to see this wonderful bookshop and resource a shadow of its former self. |
| 297 | Anonymous | |
| 298 | Anonymous | |
| 299 | Gill Thorniley | |
| 300 | Antony Oakley | |