TWENTY-THREE years since the closure of St Elisabeth’s, Eastbourne, there are hopes that housing will be built on the site where the church was demolished in 2021. The church, once described in the ...

Playing the piano is akin to having a second language in which to speak, think, and pray, writes Simon Parke WE START with a riddle: “What has keys but can’t listen to the beauty it unlocks? A piano.” ...

PROPOSED changes to prison sentences are driven by politics and “pandering to public opinion”, and fail to look at the bigger, longer-term picture, the Bishop of Gloucester, the Rt Revd Rachel Treweek ...

FUNERALS come barging into everyday life like some out-of-control juggernaut, ripping apart the structure of our days, making heavy demands on us — some of which are impossible to meet, and adding ...

FOR four-and-a-half centuries, the Hidden Christians in Japan lived in the shadows. To meet them, I had to go there, too: down the archipelago’s back roads, past the neon metropolises, into a ...

OLIVIA BARKER WHITE first visited Uganda in 2007, during a gap year that she and five other young people had embarked on with a Christian charity. When she arrived, she was asked to teach ...

CONFUSION over a parish questionnaire has resulted in the omission of the annual membership count from the 2024 annual report of the Episcopal Church in the United States. Other data suggest that ...

SOMETIMES, I think that TikTok is best understood as China’s revenge for the Opium Wars. In the 19th century, we forced the Chinese to accept a dangerous and debilitating drug because the sale of it ...

RURAL and coastal communities continue to be disadvantaged by the Government’s use of urban-led funding formulas, research primarily funded by the diocese of Truro warns. The report on social and ...

TWENTY London churches are now accredited as Living Wage Employers, the diocese has reported. This week is designated as Living Wage Week, which the diocese has marked with a film featuring ...

“WE ARE here to be alongside you; we are here to show solidarity with you,” the Archbishop of York told the congregation at St Andrew’s, Ramallah, in the West Bank, on Sunday. Archbishop Cottrell ...

INDIGENOUS protesters at the COP30 climate summit in Brazil clashed with UN security guards on Tuesday night after the group attempted to enter the conference “blue zone”, restricted to registered ...