WAS the American Empire brought down by astrology? The thought is hard to avoid when you read The New Yorker’s review of a life of Linda Goodman, who made astrology fashionable in the 1970s. Her books ...

We need to be very clear what AI is and what it isn’t. This is a machine. Machines do not think. Machines do not have qualia. They do not understand the redness of red. They do not experience emotion ...

“GOD lives in people and he’s sent me to help you.” These were the words spoken to Assumpta, a single parent, by one of the Mothers’ Union members at a time when she and her nine children faced ...

A NEW parliamentary network of cathedral cities with a remit to make a “sustained appeal” to the Government for funding support was established this week. Cathedral deans and their constituency MPs ...

THE chair of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC), Margaret (Maggie) Swinson, a former Archbishops’ secretary for appointments and development, Caroline Boddington, and the director of partnerships ...

WANTING to describe the most memorable wedding I have ever taken has proved impossible. More than any other church service, weddings seem to attract incident — whether because emotions run so high or ...

1 He composed Wenceslas’s Feast with remarkable hedonism (7,8) ...

WE HAD a grim reminder of our nation’s regional disparities with the news that local authorities in the affluent south are forcing homeless families to move hundreds of miles to poor northern towns ...

THERE can be very few campaigns to better the lives of women and children which the Mothers’ Union (MU) has not had a hand in over the 150 years of its existence. Its four million members in more than ...

THE general secretary of the World Council of Churches , the Revd Professor Jerry Pillay, has rejected recent calls for the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) to be stripped of its mem ...

“YOU are the powerhouse of the Anglican Communion,” the Archbishop of Canterbury told the Mothers’ Union in St Paul’s Cathedral on Wednesday evening, at a service to celebrate the charity’s 150th ...

SAFEGUARDING in the Church of England could be broadened to include anyone harmed or at risk of harm in a church context, after the C of E’s National Safeguarding Team (NST) launched a consultation.