Long-term readers of the Church Times will be familiar with our annual Lent appeal for the Church Times Train-A-Priest (TAP) Fund. For the past 73 years, our readers have been giving generously — to ...

CHILDREN in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are twice as likely to die from the Ebola virus as adults, because many are already severely malnourished and battling other infections, aid agencies ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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.