It doesn't alter the validity of your point, but there is actually a church-based organisation called ECCR (Ecumenical Committee for Corporate Responsibility, or something similar), which started off some 20 years ago (a colleague of mine was involved heavily. It did actually start with the aim...
Fair enough, but as I actually work for the Churches (not an Anglican), I meet a fair number of senior thingies myself.
The best meeting being on election day in 1997 when I was at a day conference chaired by the then Bishop of Liverpool, the true Sussex hero, David Sheppard. A nicer, more...
Does it ever occur to you that some of the buildings you are talking about are national monuments of enormous importance, cost a small fortune to maintain and that the Church might actually prefer to be relieved of that responsibility so that they could do something more useful.
Have you not...