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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

OUT of an interest in Western civilisation, I have been reading St Augustine’s The City of God, and the saint would have a hard time finding employment as a crisis counsellor today. He writes, of ...

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 ...

USE of the death penalty has increased dramatically in North Korea since the country closed its borders during the pandemic: at least 144 executions of at least 358 people were carried out, including ...

I AM sitting in the pew, waiting for the service of holy communion to start. I feel alone, and yet I am not lonely, surrounded by other church members. I do my best to make conversation with the ...

IT’S said that to set out on pilgrimage is to throw down a challenge to the everyday life that you take too much for granted. With this in mind, more than 50 of us from Southwark’s Church of England ...

THE Archbishop of Canterbury has said that the Church of England must take action to tackle anti-Semitism, and that she “cannot imagine how frightening it must be” for Jewish parents to worry about ...

A FIFTH year of growth in attendance in the Church of England was reported by Church House, Westminster, on Wednesday. Preliminary returns for the annual report Statistics for Mission, based on data ...