DESPITE polling heralded as revealing a “quiet revival”, the Church of England is — by almost every measure and in almost every diocese — smaller than it was in 2018, this year’s Statistics for ...

A “REAL risk that many will . . . be pushed even deeper into poverty” was the concern expressed by the Bishop of Leicester, the Rt Revd Martyn Snow, about new legislation in the House of Lords last ...

SIX years ago, after an hour’s debate, the General Synod voted almost unanimously to call on the Church of England to speak out publicly against racism directed against Gypsies, Roma, and Travellers ...

LAST MONTH, I went to the UnHerd Club, in central London, to be told that we can expect at least 23,000 deaths a year in the coming conflict between groups based in the Islamist cities and those whose ...

COMPENSATION of £3000 has been offered to each of those affected by the data breach that revealed the email addresses of those who had signed up for updates on the Church of England’s Redress Scheme ...

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.

THE heavy workloads of the Bishops of Beverley and Ebbsfleet, who provide episcopal ministry to parishes with a conservative stance on the ordination of women, require extra support, an independent ...

TWO-THIRDS of church choirs have no members under 18 — a figure that rises to 80 per cent in villages and rural areas, an RSCM survey of church musicians’ fees has found. An ageing singing population ...

THE thing about memoirs, Philip Yancey reflects, is that we think we are reading them to learn about other people, when, in fact, we are reading them to learn about ourselves. His father died from ...

WHEN John Clarkson was Governor of Sierra Leone in the late 18th century, he named a waterfront settlement in the centre of the country’s capital after his fiancée, Susan Lee. It was a lovely gesture ...

AN ANGLICAN priest who established a breakaway church in Cardiff was inadequately prepared for his responsibilities in the Church in Wales, having being appointed to lead a city-centre resource church ...

SEVEN people were killed by Israeli drone-fire on the Anglican Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City on Sunday, after damage and disruption involving local “outlaws”. On Monday, the diocese of Jerusalem, ...