THE Very Revd Ken Riley was, perhaps, one of the last of those somewhat old-fashioned deans whose preferment to senior posts was based firmly on a proven strength of character together with a ...

LIGHTS up on bare staging. A young woman stands with trepidation and defiance before her fiancé and parents. Her father speaks with simmering anger: Joachim: Do you realise what you’ve done to us, ...

THE Armenian Apostolic Church has condemned the arrest of a fourth senior prelate in its dispute with the Armenian government, and has urged other bishops not to succumb to unconstitutional “coercive ...

The Bishops had been expected to formally approve decisions to subject proposals for stand-alone services of blessing for same-sex couples and the reconsideration of rules that bar the clergy from ...

The Church TimesLondon and Home Counties The Abbey of St Benedict, London, wishes to appoint a Director of Music to lead the Catholic choir of Ealing Abbey, and to contribute to the development of 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 ...

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THE Bishop of Lichfield, Dr Michael Ipgrave, was “clearly correct” in taking no further action against the Revd Tim Hastie-Smith concerning the handling of reports about John Smyth’s abusive behaviour ...

MARIE HOWE is writing poetry again. Short, four-line pieces, she tells me over a video call from Los Angeles, where she’s just out of teaching a class. The winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for ...

THERE is a maxim “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” History has always fascinated me; the mistakes and successes of our ancestors reveal so much about human nature and often have ...

THE Church of England has launched what it describes as its “biggest-ever” Advent and Christmas campaign, which focuses on the theme “The Joy of Christmas”. The Bishop of Stockport, the Rt Revd Sam ...