BIBLICAL accounts of families crossing lands to escape food shortages found contemporary echoes in 2025, with hundreds of thousands of people in the Middle East and Afghanistan displaced by drought ...
LIGHTS up on bare staging. A young woman stands with trepidation and defiance before her fiancé and parents. Her father speaks with simmering anger: Joachim: Do you realise what you’ve done to us, ...
The Bishops had been expected to formally approve decisions to subject proposals for stand-alone services of blessing for same-sex couples and the reconsideration of rules that bar the clergy from ...
The Church TimesLondon and Home Counties The Abbey of St Benedict, London, wishes to appoint a Director of Music to lead the Catholic choir of Ealing Abbey, and to contribute to the development of the ...
THE Archbishop of Sydney, the Most Revd Kanishka Raffel, has issued a statement embracing “Jewish neighbours and fellow citizens in love, friendship, and support” in the aftermath of what he described ...
THE Bishop of Lichfield, Dr Michael Ipgrave, was “clearly correct” in taking no further action against the Revd Tim Hastie-Smith concerning the handling of reports about John Smyth’s abusive behaviour ...
MARIE HOWE is writing poetry again. Short, four-line pieces, she tells me over a video call from Los Angeles, where she’s just out of teaching a class. The winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for ...
THE Church of England has launched what it describes as its “biggest-ever” Advent and Christmas campaign, which focuses on the theme “The Joy of Christmas”. The Bishop of Stockport, the Rt Revd Sam ...