A YOUNG mum came to see me last week to enquire about the church, and ask about what we believed and what we expected of her.

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THE Revd Don Cupitt, the Anglican priest and philosopher whose BBC TV series The Sea of Faith brought him to prominence in 1984, has died, aged 90. A life Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he ...

SOLAR panels — 184 of them — have been installed and blessed on the roof of York Minster. The Dean, the Very Revd Dominic Barrington, prayed: “Bless these solar panels that they may help us in our ...

DIVINE CHOCOLATE is not selling Easter eggs this year. The decision is expected to mean that the demand for Fairtrade chocolate eggs will outstrip the supply.

THE “reset” of safeguarding in the Church of England must have mandatory reporting at its heart, the Bishop of London told the House of Lords last Friday.

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MORE than one third of adults in the UK are anxious about their everyday finances, new polling from Christians Against Poverty (CAP) suggests. Through its latest campaign, “Budget not Blues”, the ...

St Magnus Way, on Orkney Mainland, is dedicated to Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney — an influential trading and military outpost of the Norse (Scandinavian) kingdom at the end of the 11th century.

UNDER-25s who claim Universal Credit as care-leavers are disadvantaged by the law, the Bishop of Manchester, Dr David Walker, said in the House of Lords last week. He argued for an increase in their ...

THE Bishop of Chelmsford, Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani, was in Jerusalem last week when the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal was agreed. On Sunday, she told the Church Times that the reception of the deal among ...

THE first new parish in the diocese of Guildford for 25 years has been established at the site of the former Deepcut army barracks in Surrey. The former garrison church, St Barbara’s, built as a tin ...