The topic was patronage in the Church of England — the right to nominate a priest to a vacant parish post. After listening to an hour-long speech, peers agreed to the Bishop’s request that a select ...

THE Bishop of Manchester, Dr David Walker, has welcomed the Government’s “long overdue” move to protect LGBTQ+ people in England and Wales from physical and psychological abuse by proposing a legal ...

MEMORIES of seeing small numbers of people come to faith gradually, while serving on outer estates, were shared by the new Bishop of Ely, the Rt Revd Sarah Clark, this week. “Sometimes growth came but ...

A FURTHER seven men have been ordained deacon by the Rt Revd Martin Morrison, a bishop in the Reformed Evangelical Anglican Church of South Africa (REACH SA), at the East London Tabernacle, a Baptist ...

I HAVE always known that I am adopted. But I did not know until a few years ago that the Church of England had overseen my forced adoption. The Church has now published a report on historical adoption ...

THE ordinations season is coming round once again, and a new crop of deacons are about to be launched into parish life, along with those deaconed last year who are about to become priests. It is, ...

THE picture that emerged from the first conference for church musicians and clergy at the inaugural Major Churches Music Conference has led its organisers to speak of the beginning of a renaissance in ...

BRITAIN is turning over Prime Ministers — six in ten years — at almost the precipitous rate at which Manchester United changes its managers: eight since the departure of the long-serving Sir Alex ...

ARMSTRONG. The Revd Susan Armstrong, NS Associate Vicar of Rotherham Minster and Masbrough (Sheffield): 26 July. BURSON-THOMAS. The Revd Michael Burson-Thomas, Hon. Priest-in-Charge of Pennington ...

HAVING begun my ministry as a mother of young children, and, therefore, a somewhat obscure member of the local population, known more for being “the mother of X” than a person in my own right, I ...

THE parish system in the Church of England has been hotly debated for some years now. As numbers attending church continue to decline, it is getting harder and harder to sustain a presence in every ...