3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (357+ words) Friday 11 September 2026 BAYLISS. The Revd Dr Geoffrey Bayliss, Team Rector in the Cowley Team Ministry, Area Dean of Cowley, and Hon. Canon of Christ Church, Oxford (Oxford). KENDRICK. The Revd Helen Kendrick, Rector of the Damascus Benefice, and Hon. Canon…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (734+ words) Friday 11 September 2026 AIs that simulate dead loved ones deny people’s humanity and may deprive them of resurrection hope, argues Mike Jackson THERE is an odd blend of comfort and pain in clearing out the possessions of a loved one who…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (323+ words) Friday 11 September 2026 Snow urges Government to expand supported volunteering for young people, as peers debate how vocational training and education can improve social mobility EDUCATIONAL challenges and rising numbers of young people not in education, employment, or training (NEETs) risk…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (766+ words) Friday 17 July 2026 The UN’s development goals are restricted by a secular world-view, argues Mark Vernon Artisans work at the Turquoise Mountain project in Afghanistan ALL beauty is an echo of God’s beauty. This statement and others like it have been…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (513+ words) Friday 10 July 2026 ‘It does the job perfectly’ says priest Hari and the Revd Ian Robb with the new ciborium A CIBORIUM made from potato-starch plastic by using a 3D printer is proving a success in a Gloucester parish. “It does the…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (445+ words) Friday 03 July 2026 Striking sayings or writings from the past week. Readers’ contributions welcome If you are looking for power on a warhorse, you may miss the baby in Bethlehem or the carpenter in a village Nick Baines, former Bishop of…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (628+ words) Friday 03 July 2026 A NEW AI tool, Abraame, is being promoted as “the first AI-assisted platform for comparative study of the three Abrahamic traditions”. The platform, published by Airking DWC-LLC, which is based in Dubai, can be used without charge until…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1379+ words) Friday 05 June 2026 ‘It’s not that we will believe anything, it is that we will believe nothing’ The Archbishop of Canterbury, in the House of Lords on Friday, raises ‘urgent new questions’ about AI THE Archbishop of Canterbury has raised a…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (323+ words) Friday 29 May 2026 ALAN MILBURN’s review of the reasons that so many young people are unemployed contains the grim statistic that, in the past ten years, the numbers of non-working young people receiving benefits for a health condition have nearly doubled....

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (337+ words) Friday 29 May 2026 Anthropomorphism is defended as the way to truth, says Robin Gill IT WAS the great medieval Jewish scholar Moses Maimonides who set out at length the biblical oddity of using human, embodied terms about God — variously depicting God,…...