PEOPLE often talk of holy places as “thin”, where the boundary between this world and the heavenly realm is so porous it’s barely there. These are usually ancient sites of prayer and pilgrimage, or of ...

THERE are two approaches to thinking about the meaning of Jesus’s death. One focuses on the effect of his death on the individual believer. The other asks what has been achieved by that death, even ...

FOR the University of Oxford rower Sarah Marshall, her preparation for the annual Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, which takes place on Saturday, is as much spiritual as physical. As for every race, ...

HUMANITARIAN agencies are “incredibly concerned” about the plight of children in South Sudan who have been forced to flee repeatedly in the face of growing violence and with little humanitarian aid ...

PATRIARCH KIRILL of Moscow, praising the elite Russian Guard for its “glorious accomplishments” during the war against Ukraine, has reiterated his Church’s support for President Putin’s “most daring ...

HE IS dead. He has reached the end of his life. And they — the fragments of his following — have reached the end of his story. They have followed him as far as they can go, and as far as he can take ...

DEPRESSION sears the soul. So do the memories that can prompt it — memories that can remain with you for a lifetime, no matter how hard you try to tell yourself that they belong in the past and should ...

THE Archbishop of Canterbury is to visit the Anglican Church of the Province of West Africa “to strengthen the ties between the See of Canterbury and the Province”. Archbishop Mullally will visit ...

THERE has been much criticism of the Rt Revd Justin Welby for saying, in a BBC interview with Laura Kuenssberg this week, that he “forgives” John Smyth. In reality, his comments were much more nuanced ...