“WHY are we going on safari in Scotland?” my youngest daughter asks, as we roll off the ferry on the seventh largest island in Scotland — and perhaps its biggest wildlife secret. I explain that Arran ...
THE churchwardens of the Grade II listed St Peter’s, Little Budworth, have succeeded in persuading the Consistory Court of the diocese of Chester to grant a faculty permitting the sale by auction of a ...
Years-long Living in Love and Faith process will instead come to an ‘imperfect’ and ‘untidy’ end, statement says ...
IN VIEW of widespread anti-government protests in Iran, the Bishop of Chelmsford, Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani, is praying for a “peaceful resolution that will lead to justice and freedom”. On Thursday ...
THE bestselling American Christian writer Philip Yancey — whose books include What’s So Amazing About Grace? — has said that he is “retiring from writing, speaking, and social media” after confessing ...
THE New Year Honours list, published on Monday evening, includes well-known churchpeople. Among them are the chief executive of the Children’s Society since 2019, and previously chief executive of the ...
FAITH is diversifying rather than disappearing from Britain, according to a study of people who have undergone change in their religious belief. Its authors suggest that a “quiet but profound” ...
AN EMERGENCY food parcel is expected to be distributed every ten seconds by foodbanks in the Trussell community this winter, the charity predicts. Trussell published statistics from a survey of 213 ...
THE making of a documentary film exploring the history of the Jewish blood libel in medieval Norwich, and the cathedral’s involvement in perpetuating it, has led the Chapter to agree to remove 1990s ...
THE Church of England conducted fewer weddings than ever in 2023, as the number of people in England and Wales getting married in religious ceremonies slumped to a new low. In total, 216,901 weddings ...
“THE end has come for the Christians. In Syria and Mesopotamia Christianity is now extinct. Islam is victorious throughout the world.” So a Syrian Orthodox bishop wrote in 1451. When, in 1997, I first ...
WHEN the Revd Chantal Noppen was undergoing her ordination training at Westcott House, Cambridge, from 2010 to 2013, she felt that “there were so many things stacked up against it being a comfortable, ...
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