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; ...

The Rt Revd Graham James writes: WILLIAM IND (known as Bill to everyone), who died on 22 April, was born on 26 March 1942. His father was a soldier in the First World War, and this family military ...

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 ...

“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 ...

A HANDWRITTEN note in the Chapter service book of St Davids Cathedral, from 20 April 1966, reveals a moment of unexpected ecclesiastical and social history. The organist and music director, Peter ...

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 ...

WELL, this I did not expect. Thirty-five years since I started writing about politics, I am both astonished and fascinated by the ever-increasing importance of religion, spirituality, and the quest ...

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 ...

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 ...