THE next Suffragan Bishop of Warrington, in the diocese of Liverpool, is to be the Dean of Truro, the Very Revd Simon Robinson, Downing Street announced on Friday. He succeeds the Rt Revd Beverley ...

WE ARE fasting — in the hollow hunger of Lent. We are waiting — in the entombed darkness of Saturday. We are watching — for the golden dawn of Easter, the turning of death to life. And then we hear it ...

A COMMON criticism of the Narnia stories is that they are merely allegories — generally considered a rather limited art form, in which everything represents something in our own world. But, while that ...

THREE magnolia trees were planted across Devon this week to commemorate the installation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, in recognition of her three years as Bishop of Crediton in the diocese of ...

THE Archbishop of Canterbury introduced herself by her first name to schoolchildren as a “sense of humility in coming before God”, the incoming chaplain to the Archbishop, the Revd Claire Dowding, ...

SIX months after the announcement in Canterbury Cathedral that the Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, had been nominated as the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury (News, 10 October 2025), the ...

THE Bishop of Newcastle, Dr Helen-Ann Hartley, expressed concern on Friday for those with “additional vulnerability to coercion” when it comes to assisted dying — “especially due to cultural and ...

THREE projects to maintain, develop, and protect historic synagogues, churchyards, and churches across the UK are to benefit from the National Lottery Heritage Fund’s latest round of funding, ...

HUNDREDS of anti-racist counter-protesters effectively thwarted a UK Independence Party (UKIP) “Walk with Jesus Rally” in Liverpool on Saturday. Church leaders from across the city had condemned the ...

THE Prince of Wales’s connection to the Church of England “runs deep and is grounded in something personal and sincere”, an aide told The Sunday Times this week. Three days before the Prince and ...