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Resignations and retirements
2+ day, 6+ 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…...
Save the Parish conference leaves Norfolk rural churches ‘hopeful’
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (458+ words) Friday 11 September 2026 All Saints’, Thorpe Abbotts, in Norfolk AMID deep concern for the future of the rural church, participants left a Save the Parish conference in Norwich feeling “hopeful”, its organiser said this week. The Bishop of Lynn, Dr Jane…...
Lack of skills could herald ‘crisis’, says Bishop of Leicester
2+ day, 6+ 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…...
Prime Minister’s ‘map’ of faith in action published
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (564+ words) Friday 11 September 2026 Report estimates that 33,000 churches provide 250,000 instances of support each year The launch of the report Heart of the Neighbourhood in the Houses of Parliament on Tuesday A REPORT commissioned by the Prime Minister and championing the “significant yet…...
‘I was probably the only atheist in the room’: Alastair Campbell on Bible studies with Justin Welby
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (924+ words) Thursday 10 September 2026 Tony Blair’s former spin doctor, who once declared ‘We don’t do God,’ talks about his enduring interest in faith. Interview by James Macintyre Alastair Campbell in conversation at the Hay Festival last year ALASTAIR CAMPBELL, who famously told…...
Quotes of the week
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (15+ words) The Church Times Friday 07 August 2026 Quotes of the week...
General Synod Digest: Call for Church Commissioners to support 30 by 30 conservation target falls
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (37+ words) The Church Times Friday 31 July 2026 General Synod Digest: Call for Church Commissioners to support 30 by 30 conservation target falls...
General Synod Digest: News in brief
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (60+ words) The Church Times Friday 31 July 2026 General Synod Digest: News in brief A round up of other debates and speeches covered in York session A guest from the wider Anglican Communion, the Bishop of the Lusitanian Catholic Apostolic Evangelical Church in…...
Book review: The Foundations of Zionism by Sabri Jiryis, translated by Fida Jiryis
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (223+ words) Friday 24 July 2026 William Whyte finds a history of Zionism a monument to bitterness The Revd Dr William Whyte is a Fellow and Tutor of St John’s College, Oxford, and Professor of Social and Architectural History in the University of Oxford....
Letters to the editor
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (843+ words) Friday 17 July 2026 Draft Bill to ban conversion therapy From Professor Jim McManus Madam, — Canon Mark Bratton’s critique of the Draft Conversion Practices Bill (Letter, 10 July) repeats many of the concerns that have accompanied every attempt to regulate conversion practices, and,…...