GOD needs to speak to us in our own language. As the Anglican poet Malcolm Guite puts it: “Hail your God in any language, he replies in your own mother tongue” (David’s Crown: Sounding the Psalms; ...

The event 60 years ago came about owing to a set of extraordinary circumstances. On the evening of 20 April, St Davids Cathedral was the venue for the BBC Home Service broadcast Choral Evensong. Mr ...

BOTH the Church’s funding bodies and the Government should ramp up investment in cathedrals, where financial pressures are resulting in commercial bookings that risk “crowding out the sense of ...

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 ...

Acts 2.1-21; Psalm 104.26-36,37b; 1 Corinthians 12.3b-13; John 20.19-23/7.37-39 THIS Gospel made me wonder: what if there were eight “I am” sayings of Jesus? The Gospel includes seven of these sayings ...

A PLEA for wider access to choral music was heard at the annual conference of the Choir Schools’ Association (CSA) this month. Participants raised concerns about the state of music provision in state ...

ALMOST 60,000 people took part in the London Marathon last month. The event — which attracts elite athletes, celebrities, and charity runners from around the world — has raised an astonishing £87.5 ...

LEE ABBEY is going Tough Mudder on its first running retreat, where the highlight of the autumn weekend is a Saturday 5k hill-run and 5k mud-run through the rugged, coastal 280-acre Lee Abbey estate.

HERITAGE groups have nominated a once-imposing 600-seater Victorian church for inclusion on a global at-risk list, and urged the diocese of Manchester not to let the building be demolished. Friends of ...