SIGNIFICANT progress in church safeguarding is being undermined by resistance from senior officers, INEQE, the company auditing safeguarding in every diocese and cathedral, has said. INEQE said in its ...

IN CASE you hadn’t noticed, pilgrimage is in the air. All over Britain, old pilgrim routes are being revived and new ones established; celebrity pilgrims appear regularly on our TV screens; bishops ...

THE charity Stewardship, which manages charitable donations from churches, charities, and individuals, has reported that last year was its highest income year on record. Its 2025 annual report, ...

INTERVIEWS with 30 18- to 30-year-olds who began attending an Anglican church for the first time in the five years after the Covid-19 pandemic lend weight to the theory that Generation Z is a ...

Proper 12: 1 Kings 3.5-12; Psalm 119.129-136; Romans 8.26-39; Matthew 13.31-33, 44-52 ONE characteristic that makes things valuable is scarcity. When supply is abundant, prices drop. When supply drops ...

The Church Times The Bishop is seeking to appoint a new vicar to the lovely seaside village of Rottingdean, a couple of miles to the east of Brighton and a single parish benefice. The church is at the ...

Advertising in the Church Times means your message will be seen by thousands of faithful readers who are engaged and proactive in the daily life of the Church. The paper has a weekly distribution of ...

Proper 11: Wisdom of Solomon 12.13, 16-19 or Isaiah 44.6-8; Psalm 86.11-17; Romans 8.12-25; Matthew 13.24-30, 36-43 READING this Gospel evoked an ancient Christian problem, post-baptismal sin, which ...

THE General Synod, after hours of impassioned debate and procedural delays, has voted to “hear” a document that describes Israel as a “colonial enterprise” that inflicted a “genocidal war on Gaza”. A ...

GOD did not make a mistake when he made us all,” the Bishop of Dover (Canterbury), the Rt Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin, said on Monday during a General Synod debate on the compatibility of same-sex ...

The Churches’ Legislation Advisory Service told the Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee’s “Protecting Built Heritage” inquiry that thousands of historic places of worship depended on volunteers: ...