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; ...
HERITAGE funding for the 14,000 listed places of worship in England, including cathedrals, is to come in upfront capital grants, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has announced. Those ...
BOTH the Church’s funding bodies and the Government should ramp up investment in cathedrals, where financial pressures are resulting in commercial bookings that risk “crowding out the sense of ...
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 ...
Acts 2.1-21; Psalm 104.26-36,37b; 1 Corinthians 12.3b-13; John 20.19-23/7.37-39 THIS Gospel made me wonder: what if there were eight “I am” sayings of Jesus? The Gospel includes seven of these sayings ...
HERITAGE groups have nominated a once-imposing 600-seater Victorian church for inclusion on a global at-risk list, and urged the diocese of Manchester not to let the building be demolished. Friends of ...
AN END to “unrealistic” job-descriptions when clergy appointments are made is among the recommendations in the paper on clergy well-being launched on Tuesday. It includes a draft Covenant for Clergy ...