The proposals were developed by the Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, as chair of the six-person Advisory Group ...

St Mary de Haura is, in every way, at the centre of the lively seaside town of Shoreham-by-Sea. The magnificent Norman church ...

FIGURES released by the Department for Education in July show a record number of suspensions from school in England last year ...

WITH its customary attention to (some might say, obsession with) composers’ anniversaries, the BBC featured two very ...

THE subtitle of Lower than the Angels: A history of sex and Christianity suggests that there are other possible histories and that this is not the final word on the Church’s tangled and often fraught ...

HUMAN rights in North Korea have deteriorated even further since a UN report a decade ago alleged severe repression amounting ...

THE Children’s Society has reported an operating loss in 2023-24 of £4.4 million, as demand for help from children has surged ...

THE Rt Revd Jacqueline Searle, the Suffragan Bishop of Crediton, in Exeter diocese, since 2018, is to retire at the beginning ...

THE numbers of ministers placed into parishes and the decline in church attendance are not as easily linked as we might think. Groups such as Save the Parish have made the call for a greater focus of ...

THREE hundred and fifty delegates gathered this week for the 2024 Festival of Preaching, in its first residential form since before the pandemic. A further 100 or so joined sessions via the live ...

Sir Keir Starmer’s Government could lead the way in tackling the twin crises affecting the global South, argues David Walker TWENTY-FOUR years ago, a Labour government, in its first term in power ...

JESUITS tend not to like the adjective Jesuitical, since, in popular usage, it conveys the sense of dissembling, equivocating, or deploying over-subtle casuistry. How ironic, then, to see it being ...