TEENAGE volunteers in Hereford are being trained to give first aid and other help to people on weekend nights out who find themselves in need in the city. Seventeen 16- to 17-year-olds have joined ...

TWENTY-THREE years since the closure of St Elisabeth’s, Eastbourne, there are hopes that housing will be built on the site where the church was demolished in 2021. The church, once described in the ...

Playing the piano is akin to having a second language in which to speak, think, and pray, writes Simon Parke WE START with a riddle: “What has keys but can’t listen to the beauty it unlocks? A piano.” ...

ASBRIDGE. The Revd Nigel Asbridge, Vicar of St Mary with St John, and St Mary’s Centre, Edmonton (London): 31 December. BUCKLEY. The Revd Christopher Buckley, Vicar of Belle Isle and Hunslet (Leeds): ...

THE Church Army is to train its evangelists at the Community of the Resurrection (CR), Mirfield, it was announced this week. The move follows the Church Army’s decision to sell its Sheffield ...

A WARNING that the Prayers of Love and Faith (PLF) may have “a considerable unintended symbolic and theological impact” is among the cautionary notes sounded in a paper produced by the Faith and Order ...

Shareholders are demanding votes on firms’ transition plans — but too many are proving reluctant to provide them, writes James Corah EVERY institutional investor is guided by what matters to its ...

IN THE summer of 2024, the Labour Party was riding high. But its member for York Central was not. Rachael Maskell had been an MP for nine long years of opposition, and finally her party had reclaimed ...

PROPOSED changes to prison sentences are driven by politics and “pandering to public opinion”, and fail to look at the bigger, longer-term picture, the Bishop of Gloucester, the Rt Revd Rachel Treweek ...

THE Faith and Order Commission of the Church of England seems to have undergone a quiet transformation. Its new report, The Nature of Doctrine and the Living God, talks confidently about scripture as ...

FUNERALS come barging into everyday life like some out-of-control juggernaut, ripping apart the structure of our days, making heavy demands on us — some of which are impossible to meet, and adding ...

“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 ...