INTERVIEWS with 30 18- to 30-year-olds who began attending an Anglican church for the first time in the five years after the Covid-19 pandemic lend weight to the theory that Generation Z is a ...

SIGNIFICANT progress in church safeguarding is being undermined by resistance from senior officers, INEQE, the company auditing safeguarding in every diocese and cathedral, has said. INEQE said in its ...

THE charity Stewardship, which manages charitable donations from churches, charities, and individuals, has reported that last year was its highest income year on record. Its 2025 annual report, ...

Proper 11: Wisdom of Solomon 12.13, 16-19 or Isaiah 44.6-8; Psalm 86.11-17; Romans 8.12-25; Matthew 13.24-30, 36-43 READING this Gospel evoked an ancient Christian problem, post-baptismal sin, which ...

IN CASE you hadn’t noticed, pilgrimage is in the air. All over Britain, old pilgrim routes are being revived and new ones established; celebrity pilgrims appear regularly on our TV screens; bishops ...

THE General Synod, after hours of impassioned debate and procedural delays, has voted to “hear” a document that describes Israel as a “colonial enterprise” that inflicted a “genocidal war on Gaza”. A ...

“MANY in the Church have been wounded,” and, to heal, trust must be nurtured, the Archbishop of Canterbury said in her sermon at York Minster on Sunday, midway through the meeting of General Synod.

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CLERGY who are disqualified from driving as a result of a series of minor driving and highway offences will have to report the fact to their bishop, under the new Clergy Conduct Measure Rules. The ...

ANN WIDDECOMBE, the former Conservative minister turned Reform UK campaigner, who was received into the Roman Catholic Church after the ordination of women in the Church of England, has died, aged 78.

Proper 10: Isaiah 55.10-13; Psalm 65.(1-7) 8-13; Romans 8.1-11; Matthew 13.1-9,18-23 JESUS has quite a lot to say about sowing and reaping, but not in terms of truisms about wasted investment of ...

QUESTIONS about the conduct of the Bishop of Salisbury, the Rt Revd Stephen Lake, have been referred to the Church of England’s National Safeguarding Team (NST), the Church Times has learned. A ...