The findings suggest that a record 9.3 million people in the UK, including three million children, are facing hunger and ...

Preaching tips, advice and inspiration, as featured in the Church Times.

All they want for Christmas... ‘In a culture where we worship at the altar of success, losing people feels like failure’ ...

Fergus Butler-Gallie: When was the pre-Brexit Golden Age?

THIS Gospel reflects on the nature of rule. James and John want positions of authority in the Kingdom. The anger of their ...

THE latest work by the stage designer Es Devlin, Congregation, has been in St Mary le Strand, London, in the past week. It comprises 50 large charcoal-and-chalk portraits of people who found sanctuary ...

For the first time in England’s long history, atheists outnumber believers. But the decay of faith has not . . . ushered in an era of reason, rational thought and reverence for science. Instead of a ...

BOOTH. The Revd Ian Booth, Area Dean of Haringey, remaining Team Rector in the Wood Green with Bounds Green Team Ministry (Lon­­don). COUCH. The Revd Felicity Couch, Rural Dean of Shingay, remaining ...

THE new Dean of Manchester [Hewlett Johnson, the later “Red Dean” of Canterbury] is a moderate Modernist, and his association with the Life and Liberty Movement will doubtless commend him to Dr.

THE Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has called for the Russian Orthodox Church to be recognised internationally as a tool of state propaganda, in a renewed effort to protect ...

WALKING into Hereford Cathedral the other day to lend a hand (as I do in retirement), I realised that I was following in the steps of Thomas Traherne, priest and poet of Credenhill, near by, from 1657 ...

PART of what I do is to try to understand how Jesus makes sense in his own context — the idea being that one does not need to make Judaism look bad in order to make Jesus look good. And, if the end of ...