First of all, a caveat. You might think this is about you. It isn’t. It is about the Universal Churchwarden/Steward/Elder/General Figure of Elected Authority in the ...

PIPE organs in Britain face extinction by 2070 unless their rapid decline is arrested, new research from the organ charity Pipe Up for Pipe Organs concludes. The report Silencing the King? The future ...

THE lives of mafia victims, including Roman Catholic priests killed for denouncing organised crime, were commemorated across Italy, on 21 March. “Good is not to be confused with evil — and it differs ...

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, ...

C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King; and “The Dream of the Rood” (anonymous) THE events of Good Friday are so seminal, so foundational for a ...

6 Works out from legendary Greek figure earth’s rhythmic path? (5) 7 End’s nothing great (5) 8 Abbreviated prophetic work before church performance (5) 10 Court jester’s outside with tambur endlessly ...

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 ...

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 ...

BURNETT. The Revd Caroline Burnett, NS Assistant Priest of Guilsborough and Hollowell and Cold Ashby and Cottesbrooke with Great Creaton and Thornby and Ravensthorpe and Spratton (Peterborough): 30 ...

A Lutheran minister, the Revd Dr Munther Isaac, speaks of an ‘increasing sense of impunity’ among extremist settlers “The West Bank is now fragmented,” Dr Isaac, who oversees congregations in ...

HIGHLIGHT: Sunday Worship Sung eucharist live from Canterbury Cathedral, led by the Dean, the Very Revd David Monteith, with the Archbishop of Canterbury’s first Easter sermon in office and the ...

THE suffering of Christ reminds Christians to stand with “those living amid war and violence and with “the churches of the Holy Land, bearing faithful witness under immense strain”, the Archbishop of ...