Renewal Fund offering upfront capital grants succeeds Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme, under which places of worship could reclaim VAT ...

THE failure of a raft of initiatives to stem the decline of the Church of Scotland — proceeding at about 160,000 members per decade — is, in part, the result of clinging to the parish system, a new ...

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 ...

THE Church of Ireland’s General Synod debated a Bill to enable the tenure of an incumbent to be brought to an end after all reasonable endeavours have been made to resolve an “intractable breakdown of ...

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 ...

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 ...