A YOUNG mum came to see me last week to enquire about the church, and ask about what we believed and what we expected of her.

TV review: The Man Who Definitely Didn’t Steal Hollywood, A House Through Time: Two cities at war, and Everyone Else Burns ...

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The art of Cristofano Allori, who should have died thereafter ...

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SOLAR panels — 184 of them — have been installed and blessed on the roof of York Minster. The Dean, the Very Revd Dominic Barrington, prayed: “Bless these solar panels that they may help us in our ...

THE first new parish in the diocese of Guildford for 25 years has been established at the site of the former Deepcut army barracks in Surrey. The former garrison church, St Barbara’s, built as a tin ...

DIVINE CHOCOLATE is not selling Easter eggs this year. The decision is expected to mean that the demand for Fairtrade chocolate eggs will outstrip the supply.

THIS week’s column is about the online media that have largely replaced the press, and even TV, as the means through which people understand their societies. It is largely inspired by Henry Farrell, a ...

MORE than one third of adults in the UK are anxious about their everyday finances, new polling from Christians Against Poverty (CAP) suggests. Through its latest campaign, “Budget not Blues”, the ...

26 January, Nehemiah 8.1-3, 5-6, 8-10; Psalm 19 (19.1-6); 1 Corinthians 12.12-31a; Luke 4.14-21 WHEN I ask people to read in worship, I advise them to prepare by reading the passage beforehand, ...

THE former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Williams is among the signatories of a faith leaders’ letter urging the Government to support the Climate and Nature Bill, which is backed by more than 200 MPs ...