FOR Lamorna Ash, whose first book, Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish fishing town (Bloomsbury, 2020; Books, 17 July 2020) secured her the Somerset Maugham Award when she was just 25, the personal ...

PLANS to demolish up to 400 properties in central Blackpool have created a culture of fear, the assistant curate leading Beacon Church, the parish church, said this week. The curate, the Revd Matt ...

THE invitation from the Church Times was absurd, but irresistible: to go to the V&A East Storehouse in Hackney Wick, use the magnificent new scheme that lets you order up five objects, which will be ...

The Church TimesNext Suffragan Bishop of Grimsby announced THE next Suffragan Bishop of Grimsby, in Lincoln diocese, is to be the Ven. Jean Burgess, the Archdeacon of Bournemouth since 2023, Downing ...

THE Christian musician Matt Redman has said that he experienced “harmful behaviours” from Canon Mike Pilavachi, the founder of Soul Survivor. Mr Redman was a teenager when he met Canon Pilavachi, and ...

They are, Dr Black says, “just turning up out of the blue, in really quite unusual ways”. In some instances, people have arrived having had a dream. Others have arrived “randomly” at prayer and ...

A PLEA for continued commitment to the cause of Christian unity, and a warning against the sin of “running out of patience with dialogue” was delivered to hundreds of members of the Society of the ...

THE “prolific, brutal and horrific” abuse perpetrated by John Smyth, a Reader in the Church of England, was covered up by “powerful evangelical clergy”, the long-awaited Makin review has concluded.

FAILURE has not only marked modern Catholic social institutions, or efforts at Protestant reformation, of course — it has marked the entire history of Christian Ireland. By definition, it could not be ...

THERE is a fragment of sculpture in the National Museum of Scotland. It is just half a hand, broken off at the wrist and knuckles. The rest of the figure has been lost. We cannot tell who carved it, ...

THE Church of England conducted fewer weddings than ever in 2023, as the number of people in England and Wales getting married in religious ceremonies slumped to a new low. In total, 216,901 weddings ...