EXTREME weather made its presence felt at the COP30 climate talks in Brazil on Monday. Peals of thunder, tropical rainfall, and then strong winds lashed the tented venue. Torrents of water flowed ...

SEARCHING for a good word to describe the drama of Advent Sunday, I was tempted by “cataclysmic”. The “day of the Lord”, the Bible says, will bring darkness, desolation, and destruction. The prophets ...

“WE NEED to remind ourselves that every person is of immeasurable value and cannot be diminished by illness, disability, or care costs,” the Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, told the ...

MAYBE it was a Monty Python sketch that first introduced the idea of competitive grievance. Four Yorkshiremen tell stories of their deprived childhoods, each trumping the other in exaggerated ...

AS A Roman Catholic child living on the Franco-German border, I learned the language of faith long before I understood its meaning. Words such as “holy”, “glory”, and “virgin birth” were markings on a ...

Taking up wheelchair basketball after childhood cancer led Amy Conroy to the Paralympics. Now she wants to help other children, she tells Sarah Lothian ...

IN 1996, John Marriott, an aspiring young triple-jumper, was in Florida at a track-meet when he came across one of his sporting and spiritual heroes. Jonathan Edwards, a British athlete who held the ...

They are, Dr Black says, “just turning up out of the blue, in really quite unusual ways”. In some instances, people have arrived having had a dream. Others have arrived “randomly” at prayer and ...

ISRAEL has committed “genocidal acts” in Gaza, and the situation in the occupied West Bank amounts to “apartheid” and “ethnic cleansing”, the Archbishop of York has said. Archbishop Cottrell used the ...

THE Ecclesiastical Committee of Parliament is expected to send the draft Clergy Conduct Measure (CCM) back to the General Synod for further consideration rather than approve its passage into law. On ...

RESTORATION, forgiveness, and healing are needed at Oak Hill Theological College after recent “difficult times”, an organisational-health review has concluded. It follows the departure in 2023 of the ...