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, ...

EVANGELICALS broadly feel free to live out their faith, but almost half believe that it has been harder to practise it publicly in the UK in the past five years, a survey from the Evangelical Alliance ...

AS HOLY WEEK began, a mother sat wailing in lamentation of the death of her 11-year-old son, who had been playing football when the air strike happened. Ordinarily, we might set down her nationality, ...

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 ...

I AM not sure whether it was admiration or contempt that crept over the face of my then deputy, a year ago, when I sloped into the office long after lunch. “I was playing real tennis with a vicar at ...

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 ...