AN OPEN letter signed by the former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Williams and nearly 50 other prominent figures and campaigning organisations has called on the Archbishop-designate of Canterbury, the ...

WE ALL have our own ideas of the sort of priest we would like as our parish priest. Since we are all different, it should be no surprise that the person who is my “perfect” incumbent is unlikely to be ...

THE ring of bells in St Mary Magdalene’s, Richmond, which has been in the church since 1760, is to be remodelled and rehung, after the Consistory Court of the diocese of Southwark granted a faculty.

I HAD always thought that studying theology should make me more complex, and that, by the time I left theological college, I would have a big vocabulary that I could use to impress members of the ...

The Church Times4 Dog, restrained by lead, beginning to savage gnomes? (8) 10 Unexpectedly, I’m able to catch bus for historic temple site (3, 6) 11 Watch classical poet erasing core part of verse (5) ...

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 ...

THE election process for the Bishop of Bangor, which had been scheduled to start next week, will not proceed for the time being, the Archbishop of Wales, the Most Revd Cherry Vann, has announced in ...

St Martin-in-the-Fields Autumn Lecture Series 2025 investigates those things in which we believe deeply – and for which we would be prepared to make a costly stand. We have assembled an inspirational ...

CHURCHES are “incredibly anxious” about the future of the Listed Places of Worship Grant scheme (News, 11 April), which must be made permanent, the Archbishop of York told the National Churches Trust ...

FIVE per cent of the respondents to the latest National Churches Trust (NCT) survey say that their church will either “definitely” or “probably” be closed as a place of worship by 2030. The findings ...

THE statement from Gafcon that it had “reset” the Anglican Communion was developed at a meeting in Sydney last week, it has been revealed. In an interview posted on the website of the conservative ...