This week, good old Grove Books Ltd has published an important title by Andrew Goddard called Right to Die? The 'Assisted ...

As a (near) lifelong bureaucrat, I always have an interest in, and a certain fellow feeling with, past colleagues facing ...

On Tuesday 27th May, in the week when the first Crown Nominations Commission (CNC) meeting takes place to begin discerning ...

Sometime this week those tasked with nominating a new Archbishop of Canterbury will be meeting for the first of at least ...

This Sunday is the feast of Pentecost, fifty days from Passover (hence the name), in the Jewish calendar the festival of Shavuot (‘weeks’), one of the three great pilgrim festivals (with Passover and ...

The lectionary reading for Easter 7 in Year C is Acts 16.16–34, and in this season the lectionary emphasises that this is the ...

Regular readers will know that I have been concerned for many years at the gradual erosion of the clergy stipend, and both ...

James Cawdell writes: In today’s world, we often find ourselves caught between two cultural poles when it comes to power: one that celebrates dominance and control (often caricatured as the ‘red pill’ ...

Last Friday, the statistics unit of the Church of England released an ‘early snapshot’ of attendance figures, based on the returns from the count that happens in churches in October last year. The ...