TWO churches in Mosul were reconsecrated last week, on completion of reconstruction efforts that followed the occupation of the Iraqi city, from 2014 to 2017, by the so-called Islamic State (IS). St ...

THE number of children living in temporary accommodation because of homelessness has reached a record high, having risen by 7.5 per cent over the past year. The latest figures released by the ...

LICENSED lay ministers (LLMs) across the Church of England can now be both warm and recognisable, thanks to the launch of a national hoodie by the Central Readers’ Council. Building upon Bristol ...

A MEMORIAL plaque to a former churchwarden of St John the Baptist, Fifield cannot be installed on the north wall of the nave, after the Consistory Court of the diocese of Oxford refused to grant a ...

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 ...

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 ...

ANYONE who writes anything specifically for Advent is in some ways on a hiding to nothing. The declared, and laudable, intention of many of the writers under review here is to slow us down, and to ...

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) ...

Have a go at our next caption competition (above). Send entries by email only to [email protected] by 9 a.m., Monday 3 November. We invite readers’ ideas for photos: please provide ...

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 ...