THE Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, has clarified her position on abortion, saying that she should not be “simply categorised” as “pro-choice”. Bishop Mullally, the A rchbishop-designate ...
THE next Suffragan Bishop of Taunton in the diocese of Bath & Wells is to be the Ven. Dr Fiona Gibson, currently the Archdeacon of Ludlow, in the diocese of Hereford. She will succeed the Rt Revd Ruth ...
FIVE per cent of the respondents to the latest National Churches Trust (NCT) survey say that their church will either “definitely” or “probably” be closed as a place of worship by 2030. The findings ...
THE statement from Gafcon that it had “reset” the Anglican Communion was developed at a meeting in Sydney last week, it has been revealed. In an interview posted on the website of the conservative ...
DIVISIONS among Anglicans, while not new, “require urgent attention and repair”, the secretary-general of the Anglican Consultative Council, the Rt Revd Anthony Poggo, has said. It came two weeks ...
Proper 25: Jeremiah 14.7-10, 19-end; Psalm 84.1-7; 2 Timothy 4.6-8, 16-18 LUKE draws the moral from this parable before he tells it: Jesus challenges people who consider themselves righteous, but ...
Provinces encouraged ‘to amend their constitution to remove any reference to being in communion with the See of Canterbury and the Church of England’ ...
Network encourages incumbents who are unhappy with LLF process to make known their church’s willingness to withdraw from Church of England structures ...
THE cellist Guy Johnston has just begun a short tour performing Sir John Tavener’s The Protecting Veil, with the Britten Sinfonia. A spine-tingling performance at the Hatfield Music Festival (of which ...
THE Dean of Ely, the Very Revd Mark Bonney, is to retire at the end of next July after 40 years of ordained ministry. He moved to Ely in 2012 from Salisbury, where he was Canon Treasurer, and guided ...
A CHRISTIAN officer in the Indian army has been at the centre of a legal dispute over religious freedom for five years. The officer, Lt. Samuel Kamalesan, in New Delhi, was dismissed in March 2021 for ...
I’m being taken to E Wing, to a single cell. I’m baffled but thankful. My first job is to clean it. I’m given a dustpan and brush and find a scourer under the sink. I clean as best I can, and, looking ...