THE Archbishop of Canterbury has raised a series of “urgent new questions” about AI. Leading a debate on the subject in the House of Lords on Friday, she asked: “Does AI make human life more human?” ...

IN AN unusually personal speech, the Bishop of Chelmsford, Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani, has described her journey of miscarriages and IVF treatment before having three children, who, she said, were “a ...

IN A crowded church compound that has been converted into a displacement shelter in Chin state, western Myanmar, 19-year-old Esther quietly washes and folds a bloodstained cloth behind a plastic sheet ...

PRESIDENT TRUMP “has unleashed something he cannot control” in Iran, where “the prospect of a negotiated long-term ceasefire appears to be fading,” the Bishop of Chelmsford, Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani, ...

THE remains of 66 people whose bones date back to medieval times have been reburied at Holy Trinity, Kendal. Uncovered beneath the church’s curtilage wall during the construction of the Kendal Flood ...

THE next Bishop of St Albans is to be Dr Andrew Rumsey, who has been the Area Bishop of Ramsbury, in the diocese of Salisbury, since 2019, Downing Street announced on Thursday 19 Mar 2026 Listening ...

Hosea 5.15 – 6.6; Psalm 50.7-15; Romans 4.13-end; Matthew 9.9-13, 18-26 HERE is a command from Jesus which I have never actively tried to fulfil: “Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, not ...

FIT for Mission was launched against a backdrop of sustained decline in the Church’s poorest diocese: a 65-per-cent fall in church attendance in the past 30 years, and a 38-per-cent reduction in ...

Speakers to include the former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Williams; the Bishop of Chelmsford, Dr Guli Francis-Deqhani, Nick Spencer, and Anna Rowlands. Read reports from issues stretching back to ...

“LIKE a hug in a book” was how the the Dublin writer Kitty Graham described it to The Irish Times. It is an odd way to describe a literary genre concerned with murder and the worst aspects of the ...

THE Archbishop of Canterbury and the Prime Minister met in 10 Downing Street on Tuesday. A spokesperson for No. 10 said that the pair had “discussed the importance of social cohesion, inter-faith ...

Isaiah 40.12-17,27-31; Psalm 8; 2 Corinthians 13.11-13; Matthew 28.16-20 HERE are three (of course) questions for this Trinity Sunday Gospel. First, which mountain? Is Jesus directing his disciples to ...