GAFCON has issued an “Abuja Affirmation” signed by the Archbishop of Rwanda, Dr Laurent Mbanda, which calls for complete separation from the Anglican Communion’s Instruments of Communion. Dr Mbanda ...

BEING nominated to be the next Archbishop of Canterbury was a “golden moment” of affirmation for her calling, Archbishop Mullally said in an interview to celebrate International Women’s Day, on Sunday ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHURCH leaders, including the former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Williams, Christians in the Middle East, and diplomats have condemned as unjust and potentially illegal the war spreading in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

THE number of rough-sleepers in England had risen last autumn by 171 per cent since 2010 — an increase that should be seen as a “wake-up call”, the Christian homelessness charity Housing Justice says.

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 ...

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 ...