North West The Diocese of Carlisle is looking for a gifted ordained colleague with the experience and strategic skills to play a pivotal role in enabling the vocations of all God’s people alongside ...

POPE LEO plans to summon cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church to an extraordinary consistory at the beginning of 2026, according to sources in Rome, in a sign of readiness to involve them more ...

TO REFLECT on Christ the King, I am taking a single verse from Luke’s Gospel (23.38), together with the other Gospel records of the inscription on the cross. But, first, a fascinating fact that the ...

CONFUSION over a parish questionnaire has resulted in the omission of the annual membership count from the 2024 annual report of the Episcopal Church in the United States. Other data suggest that ...

FOR four-and-a-half centuries, the Hidden Christians in Japan lived in the shadows. To meet them, I had to go there, too: down the archipelago’s back roads, past the neon metropolises, into a ...

OLIVIA BARKER WHITE first visited Uganda in 2007, during a gap year that she and five other young people had embarked on with a Christian charity. When she arrived, she was asked to teach ...

SOMETIMES, I think that TikTok is best understood as China’s revenge for the Opium Wars. In the 19th century, we forced the Chinese to accept a dangerous and debilitating drug because the sale of it ...

WHEN I was a little boy, my mother took me to the London Planetarium. I was mesmerised, utterly enchanted. When the lights went down and the night sky suddenly appeared above us, it was like real ...

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION (RE) should be moved into the national curriculum in England to “improve access to high-quality provision and to prevent further diminishment”, a review commissioned by the ...

THE Church of Ireland has been drawn into the growing global Anglican rift after two diocesan bishops publicly endorsed GAFCON’s rejection of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s authority. The Bishop of ...

KAREN McFARLANE HOLTKAMP turned her lifelong passion for church and organ music into a highly successful business, organising pioneering tours of the Americas for leading British cathedral and ...