THE predatory behaviour behind grooming gangs is “not a pattern of offending confined to any particular ethnic, cultural, or religious group”, the Bishop of Manchester, Dr David Walker, said this week ...

BRITAIN is turning over Prime Ministers — six in ten years — at almost the precipitous rate at which Manchester United changes its managers: eight since the departure of the long-serving Sir Alex ...

THE election of the first Bishop of the new Episcopal missionary diocese of Navajoland, in the United States, has been postponed for a second time, with no explanation, just two days before it was due ...

THE Bishop of Manchester, Dr David Walker, has welcomed the Government’s “long overdue” move to protect LGBTQ+ people in England and Wales from physical and psychological abuse by proposing a legal ...

MEMORIES of seeing small numbers of people come to faith gradually, while serving on outer estates, were shared by the new Bishop of Ely, the Rt Revd Sarah Clark, this week. “Sometimes growth came but ...

THE ordinations season is coming round once again, and a new crop of deacons are about to be launched into parish life, along with those deaconed last year who are about to become priests. It is, ...

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 ...

HAVING begun my ministry as a mother of young children, and, therefore, a somewhat obscure member of the local population, known more for being “the mother of X” than a person in my own right, I ...

THE parish system in the Church of England has been hotly debated for some years now. As numbers attending church continue to decline, it is getting harder and harder to sustain a presence in every ...

The topic was patronage in the Church of England — the right to nominate a priest to a vacant parish post. After listening to an hour-long speech, peers agreed to the Bishop’s request that a select ...