The Church Times South West The Diocese of Exeter seeks to appoint a dynamic Lay Missional Formation Officer to empower lay disciples for missional transformation. At a critical time in our diocesan ...

BISHOPS in London have expressed their “solidarity” with the Jewish community, saying that they “condemn unequivocally” the “abhorrent” anti-Semitic attacks in the capital, after another suspected ...

LEGAL sanction, including the possibility of disqualification from holding office, is necessary to address bullying by lay officer-holder s, a motion set to be debated by General Synod this month ...

A JUDGE in Texas has dismissed a proposed agreement that would have allowed churches in the United States to endorse political candidates without losing their tax-exempt status. Judge Campbell Barker, ...

The Mystery of Faith: ‘You can’t growth-hack holiness. You can’t benchmark a burning bush’ ...

ANTHONY KNIGHT, who turned 20 on Monday and is in his second year at the Royal College of Music (RCM), remembers the moment when he dreamed up the idea now called the “Pilgrimage of Hope”, during ...

A FORMER deputy churchwarden, Benjamin Field, who was sentenced in 2019 to life for the murder of a teacher and fellow churchgoer, had his conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal on Thursday. The ...

THE Church is no different from any other charity or branch of social services unless social action and the Easter message are held together, the Archbishop of Wales, the Most Revd Cherry Vann, told ...

THE Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew of Constantinople, has expressed his desire for a swift conclusion to the war in Ukraine to pave the way for the urgent rebuilding of the nation, after three ...

RUSSIAN Orthodox leaders have heaped praise on President Putin during celebrations of his name-day, as their Church consolidated its hold over occupied regions of war-torn Ukraine. “I sincerely thank ...

THE position of the Church of England’s lead safeguarding bishop is not something that I have sought lightly. While much has been done to strengthen safeguarding in our Church, these remain deeply ...

A SCULPTOR who is making a bronze bust of the Archbishop of Cape Town, Dr Thabo Makgoba, listens while he works to online recordings of his subject’s church services, to refresh his sense of the ...