TOP COMMENT is a new BBC podcast that analyses social-media trends: it follows the money and ideologies behind people who shape our perceptions. In its debut episode, “Decline Porn Explained, and Why ...

A NEW annotated edition of the Bible, published by the Bible Society and the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity (LICC), contains more than 1000 notes, prompts, stories, and features to ...

I SHOULD have made a will 20 years ago. When I eventually got round to it, what shook me out of my complacency was the prospect of doing it theologically. By that, I don’t primarily mean leaving money ...

LIEUTENANT Colonel Philip Holmes had been married for ten years when he came home one lunchtime and found his wife, Esther Benjamis, dead in the hallway of their home in Aldershot. She had taken her ...

THE General Synod voted overwhelmingly to accept the Parochial Fees Order 2026 and keep burial fees as they stood at present. A series of amendments had enabled the Synod to reject a proposed one-off ...

IT IS no secret that the world of social media is a cesspit of misogyny and violence against women, from influencers such as Andrew Tate to AI chatbots such as Grok creating non-consensual sexually ...

THE Clergy Conduct Measure (CCM) returned to the General Synod on the Tuesday morning. Given the Synod’s final approval in February 2025, it had then been deemed “not expedient” by the parliamentary ...

THIS Gospel is one of the longest set for a principal service outside Passiontide. Length alone tells us that the message must be important, must be taken as a whole, and must be covert as well as ...

THE TIMES carried a really excellent fact-check and demolition job by its religious-affairs correspondent, Kaya Burgess, on Reform UK’s proposal to help save Britain’s “Christian heritage”. The ...

A REVIEW carried out by a former barrister for the Church in Wales has expressed approval of a decision to unfrock the former Bishop of Swansea & Brecon Anthony Pierce after he was jailed for indecent ...

IT IS estimated that there are between 40 and 42 million prostituted people worldwide, 80 per cent of whom are women and girls. Reem Alsalem, the United Nations’ special rapporteur for violence ...