RULES accompanying the new Clergy Conduct Measure will come before General Synod next month. This follows a vote in the House of Lords on Wednesday to send the Measure to the King for Royal Assent.

ADDRESSING the House of Lords in 1874, the Bishop of Peterborough, Dr William Connor Magee, delivered a thunderous denunciation. “We know only too well the announcements of ‘eligible livings’, with ...

ANYONE who thought that the UK’s relationship with the European Union was settled once and for all on 23 June 2016 might ponder two new facts that emerged last week. First, the BBC reported that new ...

I HAVE always known that I am adopted. But I did not know until a few years ago that the Church of England had overseen my forced adoption. The Church has now published a report on historical adoption ...

ARMSTRONG. The Revd Susan Armstrong, NS Associate Vicar of Rotherham Minster and Masbrough (Sheffield): 26 July. BURSON-THOMAS. The Revd Michael Burson-Thomas, Hon. Priest-in-Charge of Pennington ...

“STRONG frustration” that a report on the seal of confession remains with the House of Bishops and has “effectively been paused for over a year” has been expressed by members of the Task and Finish ...

THERE is a moment, every time a major football tournament comes around, when I feel two things at once: excitement and unease. I love the game. I hope that England wins. But, as the St George’s flags ...

IN 2018, Archbishop Welby, a former Canon of Coventry and Dean of Liverpool, declared that cathedrals should be “places of celebration and joy and good news”. He also said that they should be “fun”.