THE journey towards its designation as a minster is not the only significant change shaping the ecclesiastical landscape in St Helens. The St Helens deanery, in Liverpool diocese, along with West ...

I HAVE spent quite a lot of time listening to the small and quirky stories of what happens in smaller churches, the ways in which there is such life and creativity, imagination, and vision that far ...

ST DAVIDS CATHEDRAL could be insolvent within two years, a visitation has concluded. The report, completed in December but published this month, sets out a series of challenges, of which finance is ...

THE diocese of Bristol announced on Wednesday that the person due to be announced as its next Bishop was no longer able to take up the position “due to family reasons”. The Bishop of Swindon, the Rt ...

CUSTODIAN of a choral tradition enjoying global respect, St John’s College, Cambridge, has stolen the show with its new organ. The college has replaced a neo-classical Mander of 1990s vintage with an ...

IT IS much easier to condemn something if we think that we are not part of it. When it comes to anti-Semitism, churches have historically been part of the problem. Do we have the courage to admit that ...

CATHEDRAL deans are to meet MPs next month to discuss the financial sustainability of cathedrals in light of the Theos report, it was announced at the National Cathedrals Conference on Tuesday. Sir ...

CHRISTIANS who oppose nationalism gathered over the weekend, set up “listening stations” at the “Unite the Kingdom” march in London, and ate with Muslims. At the same time, Bishops issued a prayer and ...

CLERGY in Ireland for whom ill health prevents their continuing in ministry will have to apply to the Clergy Permanent Health Insurance policy (Clergy PHI) if they are to receive a stipend and reside ...

THE inspiration for East Meets West, a group that brings together women of different ethnicities and faiths in Lancashire, occurred in a car park. Liz Bagley noticed that, in the wake of the 9/11 ...

PENTECOST as a festival made very little impact on me as a child. I could be found crouched between the pews at the back of the small country church, my Sunday-school workbook resting on a damp ...

I LIKE a moon mission as much as the next man, but even I thought the coverage of Artemis’s recent lunar trip was a bit excessive (Comment, 10 April; News, 17 April). Don’t misunderstand me. I am in ...