On the podcast this week, James Macintyre talks about his new book, Gordon Brown: Power with purpose, which provides a definitive portrait of the former Prime Minister and Chancellor. The conversation ...

The Revd John Dunnett resigned over the decision to use prayers of blessing for same-sex couples at cathedral services ...

Genesis 1.1-2.3; Psalm 136 (136 1-9, 23-end); Romans 8.18-25; Matthew 6.25-end ONE scholar encourages us to savour the “combination of sapiential insight and apocalyptic vision in the anxieties ...

THE historic church furnisher J. Wippell & Co has returned to the ecclesiastical market, thanks to its former neighbour and one-time rival, Watts & Co. Wippells went into voluntary liquidation last ...

This week’s selection: a collection of pieces from Sojourners Magazine; a history of early and medieval Christianity; and an exploration of C. S. Lewis’s Christian faith “Light for the Way is a ...

A NEW commission on interfaith relations was launched last week, with a remit to identify and defuse potential areas of conflicts. The Area Bishop of Willesden, in London diocese, the Rt Revd Lusa ...

ALLEGATIONS of abuse or “harmful behaviour” spanning three decades at St Andrew’s, Chorleywood, the Charismatic Evangelical church that launched New Wine and Soul Survivor, have prompted the diocese ...

A PROPOSAL for the formation of a new independent Bosnian Orthodox Church could threaten intercommunal tensions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where religious affiliation is tied closely to ethnic ...

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EVER since the pandemic, I have been part of a group of neighbours cultivating a small plot of land in our street. We grow fruit and vegetables, have a small wildflower meadow (“patch” might be more ...

A NEW model for quasi-independent safeguarding is on the General Synod’s agenda next month, as are urban poverty and the parliamentary ping-pong about the Clergy Conduct Measure. Much of the debate in ...