A YOUNG mum came to see me last week to enquire about the church, and ask about what we believed and what we expected of her.

A MEMBER of the panel of three appointed to inquire into the implications for the Anglican Church of Southern Africa of the Makin review of the John Smyth affair has stepped down, after an allegation ...

Fancy broadening your cultural horizons? A visit to a European Capital of Culture may be just the ticket, suggests Dixe Wills ...

Sandwiched between Ottomans to the south, the Austro-Hungarian Empire to the west, and Tartars to the east, the Moldavia region, as it was then, was subjected to frequent invasions. Villagers would ...

New tour itineraries for 2025 include St Paul in northern Greece, taking in Philippi and Thessalonica. Corinth is another group option. Other western Europe destinations include Turkey (Izmir and ...

At each session, a facilitator introduces the space and lays out the ground rules (feelings, not solutions; keep to time; no interruptions). The facilitator also follows these rules: they don’t ...

SAFEGUARDING dominates the agenda for the first three days of the upcoming General Synod session, a five-day meeting beginning on Monday 10 February. The business will “help with the journey of ...

MR. H. A. L. FISHER, who has recently returned from a visit to America, is impressed with the increasing power of the bond of language between Great Britain and the United States. We are afraid, ...

NEWS of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas on Wednesday evening has been welcomed with caution, after overnight Israeli missile strikes were reported to have killed more than 80 people. On ...

SOLAR panels — 184 of them — have been installed and blessed on the roof of York Minster. The Dean, the Very Revd Dominic Barrington, prayed: “Bless these solar panels that they may help us in our ...

THE first new parish in the diocese of Guildford for 25 years has been established at the site of the former Deepcut army barracks in Surrey. The former garrison church, St Barbara’s, built as a tin ...

MORE than one third of adults in the UK are anxious about their everyday finances, new polling from Christians Against Poverty (CAP) suggests. Through its latest campaign, “Budget not Blues”, the ...