MURRAY GRANT who died on 30 April, was born in Bristol in 1936. He had an uneasy relationship with his father and, at the age of 16, joined the merchant navy. From 1955 to 1962, he was a steward on ...

The Rt Revd Stephen Platten writes: DESPITE his humility and ability, Canon Peter Fisher, who died on 17 March, came from an august clerical background. Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher was his great-uncle, ...

IN AN unusually personal speech, the Bishop of Chelmsford, Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani, has described her journey of miscarriages and IVF treatment before having three children, who, she said, were “a ...

I HAVE often heard people say that “Music speaks louder than words,” or “Where words fail, music speaks,” as they recall deep or memorable experiences of being affected by music. But what if music ...

A RENOWNED LGBTQ+ choir is to give its first performance in a cathedral on Saturday in a concert held to mark the start of Pride month. The Fourth Choir, which has performed in the BBC Proms, the ...

THE status of men and masculinity has been under more investigation than ever during the past decade. There have been ongoing debates about men’s participation in a culture that privileges them, ...

IN A crowded church compound that has been converted into a displacement shelter in Chin state, western Myanmar, 19-year-old Esther quietly washes and folds a bloodstained cloth behind a plastic sheet ...

PRESIDENT TRUMP “has unleashed something he cannot control” in Iran, where “the prospect of a negotiated long-term ceasefire appears to be fading,” the Bishop of Chelmsford, Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani, ...

I THOUGHT of my dad as a bit of a Jedi when I was little. He wore a long black cloak with a lion’s-head clasp, and he was up at six every morning, ringing the single, repeating bell for morning prayer ...

THE regulation of new funerary methods — including “water cremations” and human composting — has been recommended by the Law Commission of England and Wales. The independent statutory body, set up to ...

THE remains of 66 people whose bones date back to medieval times have been reburied at Holy Trinity, Kendal. Uncovered beneath the church’s curtilage wall during the construction of the Kendal Flood ...

THE next Bishop of St Albans is to be Dr Andrew Rumsey, who has been the Area Bishop of Ramsbury, in the diocese of Salisbury, since 2019, Downing Street announced on Thursday 19 Mar 2026 Listening ...