On the podcast this week, James Macintyre talks about his new book, Gordon Brown: Power with purpose, which provides a definitive portrait of the former Prime Minister and Chancellor. The conversation ...

The Revd John Dunnett resigned over the decision to use prayers of blessing for same-sex couples at cathedral services ...

Genesis 1.1-2.3; Psalm 136 (136 1-9, 23-end); Romans 8.18-25; Matthew 6.25-end ONE scholar encourages us to savour the “combination of sapiential insight and apocalyptic vision in the anxieties ...

A NEW commission on interfaith relations was launched last week, with a remit to identify and defuse potential areas of conflicts. The Area Bishop of Willesden, in London diocese, the Rt Revd Lusa ...

ALLEGATIONS of abuse or “harmful behaviour” spanning three decades at St Andrew’s, Chorleywood, the Charismatic Evangelical church that launched New Wine and Soul Survivor, have prompted the diocese ...

A NEW model for quasi-independent safeguarding is on the General Synod’s agenda next month, as are urban poverty and the parliamentary ping-pong about the Clergy Conduct Measure. Much of the debate in ...

THE Governors of Exeter Cathedral School have taken “the extremely difficult decision” to close its prep provision, owing to “unavoidable financial pressures”. In a statement published on the school ...

CALLS to offer a generous welcome amid fears about immigration were issued by bishops in their Christmas sermons this year. “Our national conversations about immigration continue to divide us, when ...

THE next Archbishop of Westminster, succeeding Cardinal Vincent Nichols, is to be the Bishop of Arundel & Brighton, the Rt Revd Richard Moth. He will be installed in Westminster Cathedral on Saturday ...

A CAROL service on Whitehall organised by the anti-Islam campaigner Tommy Robinson passed without incident on Saturday, and with a turnout much lower than at a previous Unite the Kingdom (UTK) event.

Bishop Arora has been involved in the launch of a poster campaign, which uses artwork by Andrew Gadd depicting the nativity in a bus shelter A WARNING this week from the Bishop of Kirkstall, the Rt ...

THE Government has announced an award of £230 million for heritage buildings, including listed places of worship, as part of a £1.5-billion funding package to “save” cultural venues across the country ...