ALMOST three-quarters of the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme funding remains available for the 2025-26 period. With seven months still to go in which applications can be made, the Department for ...

THE diocese of Exeter has celebrated the launch of a new 20-mile pilgrimage route from Lee Abbey to Lundy Island, a place associated with a long and deep Christian spirituality, the Revd Jane Skinner, ...

IN MID-JUNE, the brochure for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe drops through the letterbox. It’s the size of a telephone directory. (Remember those?) It’s the first indication of the themes that will ...

On the digital beach, I stay alert for rationality, humanism and secularism wherever they may be. But — for now, at least — all I hear is their melancholy, long, withdrawing roar Ibid. At all the ...

IN THE current number of the American Spirit of Missions there is an interesting article on the present situation in China by the Bishop of Hankow. He says that the Chinese have been attracted to ...

THE Serbian Orthodox Church has initiated an ecclesiastical court case against two prominent Serbian theologians, owing to their endorsement of student-led anti-corruption protests against the ...

Sarah Sands reflects on a family christening, David Montalto’s Cross of the Cosmos, and remaining career ambitions ...

The Very Revd Lister Tonge writes: ON A funeral visit, early in his first curacy, at Leigh, in Lancashire, the Revd Donald Gray found himself by the face of the deceased in the open coffin. He told ...

THERE has been much discussion of the Bible Society’s report of a “quiet revival” of churchgoing, particularly among young men (Features, 15 August). James Marriott, in The Times on Saturday, is one ...

“I’M YORUBA, not Nigerian. I have nothing in common with people from the north of Nigeria.” Those were among the reported words of the Leader of the Opposition, Kemi Badenoch (above), in one of ...

FOLLOWING on from their fine contribution to the opening concert of the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF), the ...

Thirty-four leaders began to arrive at the end of last month for a week-long visit organised by the Primate (Aotearoa) of ...