The event 60 years ago came about owing to a set of extraordinary circumstances. On the evening of 20 April, St Davids Cathedral was the venue for the BBC Home Service broadcast Choral Evensong. Mr ...

GOD needs to speak to us in our own language. As the Anglican poet Malcolm Guite puts it: “Hail your God in any language, he replies in your own mother tongue” (David’s Crown: Sounding the Psalms; ...

CATHEDRAL deans are to meet MPs next month to discuss the financial sustainability of cathedrals in light of the Theos report, it was announced at the National Cathedrals Conference on Tuesday. Sir ...

CHURCHES in Africa are working with the charity VisionSpring to screen 45,000 people and give 21,000 pairs of glasses this year to those in need of them in Uganda. VisionSpring, based in the United ...

I FIRST came across Andy Burnham in 2009 at Anfield, where he was addressing Liverpool fans on the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster. He was booed for two minutes solid as he was trying to ...

THE Green Man is a Christian symbol and, therefore, an appropriate image to be carved on a headstone in the churchyard of St Edward’s, Kempley, the Consistory Court of the diocese of Gloucester has ...

THE Vatican’s General Secretariat of the Synod has distanced itself from last week’s working-group report on same-sex relations, which called on Roman Catholics to adopt a more positive approach to ...

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 microwave and I have been itinerant for the past seven months around the house where I have lived for the past 50 years. We are renovating, reconfiguring, and extending it, using the same builders ...

“BE TO the flock of Christ a shepherd, not a wolf; feed them, devour them not. . .” That charge comes from the Prayer Book’s order for the consecration of a bishop. “Remember always with thanksgiving ...