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 ...

TEENAGE volunteers in Hereford are being trained to give first aid and other help to people on weekend nights out who find themselves in need in the city. Seventeen 16- to 17-year-olds have joined ...

IN THE summer of 2024, the Labour Party was riding high. But its member for York Central was not. Rachael Maskell had been an MP for nine long years of opposition, and finally her party had reclaimed ...

THE Church of England must move much faster in its efforts to overhaul safeguarding, the Charity Commission reports. The current implementation of reform is being pursued with “insufficient urgency ...

A WARNING that the Prayers of Love and Faith (PLF) may have “a considerable unintended symbolic and theological impact” is among the cautionary notes sounded in a paper produced by the Faith and Order ...

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 ...

THE Faith and Order Commission of the Church of England seems to have undergone a quiet transformation. Its new report, The Nature of Doctrine and the Living God, talks confidently about scripture as ...

THE Church Army is to train its evangelists at the Community of the Resurrection (CR), Mirfield, it was announced this week. The move follows the Church Army’s decision to sell its Sheffield ...

The Church Times14 September to 24 November 2025 St Martin-in-the-Fields Autumn Lecture Series 2025 investigates those things in which we believe deeply – and for which we would be prepared to make a ...

“THE end has come for the Christians. In Syria and Mesopotamia Christianity is now extinct. Islam is victorious throughout the world.” So a Syrian Orthodox bishop wrote in 1451. When, in 1997, I first ...

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 ...

AT LEAST once a year, news of congregational conflict overflows the parish boundaries and makes it into the newspapers. This summer, it was the turn of the diocese of Chester. The Bishop, the Rt Revd ...