NY: Trinity Church's board in open revolt against Rev. Cooper's extravagant ways
NY:Trinity Church's board in open revolt against Rev. James Cooper's extravagant ways
By ISABEL VINCENT, MELISSA KLEIN and JAMES COVERT
The New York Post
http://www.nypost.com/
March 18, 2012
During a Sunday morning service at Trinity Church last summer, a longtime parishioner looked around during the reading of the Gospel and counted the worshippers. By her tally, there were 49 people in the pews of the historic lower Manhattan church - a meager turnout for the storied, 314-year-old parish.
She was puzzled, then, when the next week's church bulletin reported attendance at 113. Trinity's rector, the Rev. James Cooper, had decided that tourists who wander in and out of the chapel should be counted as well, she was told. "That's just a little snapshot into the way he presents everything," said the parishioner, who was also a member of the governing board until she resigned in protest.
"Everything has a little bit of truth to it but a lot of deception around it."
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By ISABEL VINCENT, MELISSA KLEIN and JAMES COVERT
The New York Post
http://www.nypost.com/
March 18, 2012
During a Sunday morning service at Trinity Church last summer, a longtime parishioner looked around during the reading of the Gospel and counted the worshippers. By her tally, there were 49 people in the pews of the historic lower Manhattan church - a meager turnout for the storied, 314-year-old parish.She was puzzled, then, when the next week's church bulletin reported attendance at 113. Trinity's rector, the Rev. James Cooper, had decided that tourists who wander in and out of the chapel should be counted as well, she was told. "That's just a little snapshot into the way he presents everything," said the parishioner, who was also a member of the governing board until she resigned in protest.
"Everything has a little bit of truth to it but a lot of deception around it."
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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