The proposals were developed by the Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, as chair of the six-person Advisory Group ...

It must have been soon after the start of the school year, September 1972, when she asked the class who knew about St Michael ...

On the podcast this week, Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch is interviewed by Paul Handley about his new book Lower Than the Angels: A history of sex and Christianity. In a review of the book in this week ...

FIGURES released by the Department for Education in July show a record number of suspensions from school in England last year ...

THE subtitle of Lower than the Angels: A history of sex and Christianity suggests that there are other possible histories and that this is not the final word on the Church’s tangled and often fraught ...

HUMAN rights in North Korea have deteriorated even further since a UN report a decade ago alleged severe repression amounting ...

WITH its customary attention to (some might say, obsession with) composers’ anniversaries, the BBC featured two very ...

THE Rt Revd Jacqueline Searle, the Suffragan Bishop of Crediton, in Exeter diocese, since 2018, is to retire at the beginning ...

THE Children’s Society has reported an operating loss in 2023-24 of £4.4 million, as demand for help from children has surged ...

THREE hundred and fifty delegates gathered this week for the 2024 Festival of Preaching, in its first residential form since before the pandemic. A further 100 or so joined sessions via the live ...

IN RECENT years, Rupert Shortt has published a series of books on topics pertinent to the present profile of Christianity globally and locally. In this substantial volume, he distils the essence of ...

JESUITS tend not to like the adjective Jesuitical, since, in popular usage, it conveys the sense of dissembling, equivocating, or deploying over-subtle casuistry. How ironic, then, to see it being ...