THE Bishop of Liverpool, Dr John Perumbalath, has resigned with immediate effect. He wrote to the clergy of the diocese on Thursday morning that, having sought permission from the King, he had taken ...

THE “shortage of great British broccoli and cauliflowers” occasioned a debate raised in the House of Lords last week by the ...

SENIOR leaders in the diocese of Liverpool said on Wednesday that the Bishop of Liverpool, Dr John Perumbalath, should step ...

The Green Health Awards celebrate the efforts made by churches and Christian organisations to use gardens and churchyards creatively for well-being. Gardeners have always understood the power of ...

Interview: Alex Walmsley, director, Ashbourne Strategic Consulting; national vice-chair of SSAFA ...

SOME wit has called the new oligarchy in Washington the Nerd Reich, and I can only wish that I’d thought of it myself. These are grim times in which the best lack all conviction, the rest is Chat-GPT, ...

CHURCHES are providing nearly one fifth of the venues participating in the national Warm Welcome Spaces campaign, which is described by the former Prime Minister Gordon Brown as “a chain of hope . . .

TRANSFERRING the Church of England’s diocesan and national safeguarding staff to an independent body would take at least three years, a paper recommending the proposal says. Radical change was ...

“THE time for review has passed, and now is the time for action” on safeguarding, the chief executive of the Charity Commission, David Holdsworth, said this week, in a highly unusual intervention from ...

THE “reset” of safeguarding in the Church of England must have mandatory reporting at its heart, the Bishop of London told the House of Lords last Friday. She was speaking during a debate on a Private ...

PILGRIMAGE — along with midnight mass, cathedral evensong, and the latest Charismatic church-plant in a town near you — is a trend-bucker amid the general picture of religious decline in the UK. The ...

Why We Believe: Finding meaning in uncertain times by Alister McGrath (Oneworld, £18.99 (Church Times SPECIAL OFFER PRICE £15.19); 978-0-86154-921-4). “Alister McGrath offers a fresh perspective on ...