A REPORT commissioned by the Prime Minister and championing the “significant yet largely unrecognised role” of churches across England was presented to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Faith and ...
The Very Revd Nicholas Frayling writes: THE death of Harry Wakefield Bramma on 24 August, at the age of 89, has deprived the Church of an organist, composer, and educator whose career in church music ...
THE Vice-President of the United States, J. D. Vance, has said that the state of the world means that he would not be surprised if “the Antichrist was walking amongst us” today. In a podcast interview ...
AS THE United States marks the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, the Bishop of New York, the Rt Revd Matthew Heyd, has urged people to “make room” for one another. The ...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL, who famously told an interviewer questioning Tony Blair “We don’t do God,” has confirmed that he attended a series of private Bible-study sessions at Lambeth Palace in recent years.
A REPORT on David Tudor, a former Rector of Canvey Island, in Essex, given a lifetime prohibition from ministry by a clergy-discipline tribunal after a finding that he had groomed and sexually abused ...
IN HIS first public comments for months, the Bishop of Salisbury, the Rt Revd Stephen Lake, has stressed that he has “co-operated fully” with investigations into him by the Church. He said that he ...
Proper 19: Genesis 50.15-21; Psalm 103.(1-7)8-13; Romans 14.1-12; Matthew 18.21-35 MATTHEW 18 collects teachings about Kingdom values, highlighting those that are the most valuable for building up the ...
AUGUST is, of course, a time when you can get anything, even Christianity, into the newspapers, and there have been some interesting pieces as the month came to an end. The New Statesman had a piece ...
THE values of “trust, dignity, and mutual care” in public life were highlighted by the Bishop of Manchester, Dr David Walker, in the House of Lords on Tuesday. “We all — public officers and citizens ...
IT’S been quiet. Eerily so. I think that has been, perhaps, the most disconcerting part of this summer of heat. Oxfordshire, this August, has been like Arizona. It has changed the look of the ...
A new initiative seeks to attract a fresh generation of ringers to keep this piece of national heritage, now under threat, alive, Ed Beavan reports ...