THERE is a moment, every time a major football tournament comes around, when I feel two things at once: excitement and unease. I love the game. I hope that England wins. But, as the St George’s flags ...

Long-term readers of the Church Times will be familiar with our annual Lent appeal for the Church Times Train-A-Priest (TAP) Fund. For the past 73 years, our readers have been giving generously — to ...

OF THE five sitting Conservative MPs to have defected to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, much the most significant is Danny Kruger. True, the 51-year-old MP for East Wiltshire is not a former Home Secretary ...

A FEW years back, I attended a theological workshop organised by a department of the Church of England. The theme was mission, Church, and Kingdom. In the usual way, we spent portions of the day in ...

THERE has always been ambivalence about the ministry of deacons. At their first appearance in the Bible, they are shown to serve two distinct ministries. In Acts 6:2-4, their task was to administer ...

IN 2018, Archbishop Welby, a former Canon of Coventry and Dean of Liverpool, declared that cathedrals should be “places of celebration and joy and good news”. He also said that they should be “fun”.

This week’s selection: an anthology on the mystics of the early church of the East; a handbook to communion; and a selection of Edith Stein’s writings “This comprehensive anthology brings together a ...

TO REACH your 100th birthday is a milestone worthy of celebration — even more so when you are in robust health and looking forward to your next century. To give a sense of perspective, the Church of ...

THE solid joys of scripture brought clarity to the Church of England Pensions Board’s Service of Thanksgiving in Southwark Cathedral on Tuesday. “Those who lavish gold from the purse, and weigh out ...

THE Very Revd Dr Manon Ceridwen James, who was installed as Dean of Bangor Cathedral in October, has been elected as the next Bishop of Bangor. The announcement was made on Wednesday after a meeting ...

CHILDREN in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are twice as likely to die from the Ebola virus as adults, because many are already severely malnourished and battling other infections, aid agencies ...