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 ...

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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 ...

THE “prolific, brutal and horrific” abuse perpetrated by John Smyth, a Reader in the Church of England, was covered up by “powerful evangelical clergy”, the long-awaited Makin review has concluded.

A LIBERAL-DEMOCRAT Bill to scrap the requirement for daily collective worship in non-faith schools in England and replace it with inclusive assemblies has returned to the House of Lords. The Education ...

“SOMETHING great is happening,” the anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson, a convert to Christianity while in prison, said in his closing words at a carol concert in December. “I‘ve seen it at each one ...

BOTH the Church’s funding bodies and the Government should ramp up investment in cathedrals, where financial pressures are resulting in commercial bookings that risk “crowding out the sense of ...

“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.