BOTH the Church’s funding bodies and the Government should ramp up investment in cathedrals, where financial pressures are resulting in commercial bookings that risk “crowding out the sense of ...

A MEMORIAL service for people infected and affected by the contaminated-blood scandal was held on Tuesday in St Paul’s Cathedral — a place “where the spirit to sing, to shout, to scream it out is so ...

THE failure of a raft of initiatives to stem the decline of the Church of Scotland — proceeding at about 160,000 members per decade — is, in part, the result of clinging to the parish system, a new ...

Acts 2.1-21; Psalm 104.26-36,37b; 1 Corinthians 12.3b-13; John 20.19-23/7.37-39 THIS Gospel made me wonder: what if there were eight “I am” sayings of Jesus? The Gospel includes seven of these sayings ...

HERITAGE groups have nominated a once-imposing 600-seater Victorian church for inclusion on a global at-risk list, and urged the diocese of Manchester not to let the building be demolished. Friends of ...

AN END to “unrealistic” job-descriptions when clergy appointments are made is among the recommendations in the paper on clergy well-being launched on Tuesday. It includes a draft Covenant for Clergy ...

THE Church of Ireland’s General Synod debated a Bill to enable the tenure of an incumbent to be brought to an end after all reasonable endeavours have been made to resolve an “intractable breakdown of ...

CLERGY in Ireland for whom ill health prevents their continuing in ministry will have to apply to the Clergy Permanent Health Insurance policy (Clergy PHI) if they are to receive a stipend and reside ...

I AM sitting in the pew, waiting for the service of holy communion to start. I feel alone, and yet I am not lonely, surrounded by other church members. I do my best to make conversation with the ...