THE Bishop of Guildford, the Rt Revd Andrew Watson, has been diagnosed with inoperable cancer, he announced in a letter to his diocese on Tuesday. Stomach pain, an aversion to eating and consequent ...

Madeleine Davies investigates the recent fervour behind the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ movement and the response of the Church of England ...

The Revd John Dunnett resigned over the decision to use prayers of blessing for same-sex couples at cathedral services ...

THE harassment of religious groups, either by government or other groups, is at its most widespread since records began, the latest study by the Pew Research Center says. Pew, which is based in the ...

Genesis 1.1-2.3; Psalm 136 (136 1-9, 23-end); Romans 8.18-25; Matthew 6.25-end ONE scholar encourages us to savour the “combination of sapiential insight and apocalyptic vision in the anxieties ...

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THE English Reformation, as it got under way in earnest during the reign of King Edward VI, was thoroughgoing in its iconoclasm, and the whole panoply of medieval ecclesiastical vesture rapidly ...

THE bestselling American Christian writer Philip Yancey — whose books include What’s So Amazing About Grace? — has said that he is “retiring from writing, speaking, and social media” after confessing ...

A CAROL service on Whitehall organised by the anti-Islam campaigner Tommy Robinson passed without incident on Saturday, and with a turnout much lower than at a previous Unite the Kingdom (UTK) event.

A NEW commission on interfaith relations was launched last week, with a remit to identify and defuse potential areas of conflicts. The Area Bishop of Willesden, in London diocese, the Rt Revd Lusa ...