A NEW edition of the Bible Course, released by the Bible Society on Monday, features eight videos on how scripture “fits together as an overarching narrative”. The course, first launched in 2018, has ...

MORE than 15 years ago, Baroness Warsi, then co-chair of the Conservative Party, warned that Islamophobia had passed the “dinner-table test”: it had become acceptable in respectable settings, voiced ...

Paul Vallely and Nick Spencer join Ed Thornton on the podcast this week to discuss how Andy Burnham’s Roman Catholicism influences his politics.

“HE’S not the Messiah,” one MP called out, as Andy Burnham — the former Mayor of Manchester, newly elected MP for Makerfield, purported saviour of the Labour Party from electoral oblivion at the hands ...

CARING for the environment is “an essential part of following Jesus”, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York have said in a new teaching document. Hope for All Creation: A theological response to the ...

A POIGNANT piece of unclaimed lost property — an urn containing human ashes — will be interred in the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, Greenham, in Berkshire, after a faculty was granted by the ...

THE election of the first Bishop of the new Episcopal missionary diocese of Navajoland, in the United States, has been postponed for a second time, with no explanation, just two days before it was due ...

ADDRESSING the House of Lords in 1874, the Bishop of Peterborough, Dr William Connor Magee, delivered a thunderous denunciation. “We know only too well the announcements of ‘eligible livings’, with ...

“STRONG frustration” that a report on the seal of confession remains with the House of Bishops and has “effectively been paused for over a year” has been expressed by members of the Task and Finish ...

A NUMBER of bishops have added their own apologies to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s for the pain, trauma, and stigma experienced by women who gave birth in Church of England mother-and-baby homes in ...

OF THE five sitting Conservative MPs to have defected to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, much the most significant is Danny Kruger. True, the 51-year-old MP for East Wiltshire is not a former Home Secretary ...

IN THE hill districts of the Indian state of Manipur, church bells were tolled in mourning this week. The killing of three Baptist pastors returning from a peace conference has shaken Christian ...