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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ALLEGATIONS of abuse or “harmful behaviour” spanning three decades at St Andrew’s, Chorleywood, the Charismatic Evangelical church that launched New Wine and Soul Survivor, have prompted the diocese ...

PRESIDENT Trump’s administration is fighting a campaign of “reckless brutality” against the people of Minnesota, the diocesan Bishop, the Rt Revd Craig Loya, has said, after a second US citizen was ...

A NEW model for quasi-independent safeguarding is on the General Synod’s agenda next month, as are urban poverty and the parliamentary ping-pong about the Clergy Conduct Measure. Much of the debate in ...

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 ...

CALLS to offer a generous welcome amid fears about immigration were issued by bishops in their Christmas sermons this year. “Our national conversations about immigration continue to divide us, when ...

Isaiah 61.1-6; Psalm 72 (1-9) 10-16; Ephesians 3.1-12; Matthew 2.1-12 THE festival of the Epiphany preserves its Greek name in the Western Church. By the second century, it was beginning to be kept as ...

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.