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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

14 September to 24 November 2025 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 ...

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) ...

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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

Provinces encouraged ‘to amend their constitution to remove any reference to being in communion with the See of Canterbury and the Church of England’ ...