WHEN asked about the possibility of divorce, Jesus says that husband and wife are no longer two, but one flesh. It is a striking image, which then comes with a warning: “What therefore God hath joined ...

“SOMETHING great is happening,” the anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson, a convert to Christianity while in prison, said in his closing words at a carol concert in December. “I‘ve seen it at each one ...

ALLEGATIONS of abuse or “harmful behaviour” spanning three decades at St Andrew’s, Chorleywood, the Charismatic Evangelical church that launched New Wine and Soul Survivor, have prompted the diocese ...

A NEW commission on interfaith relations was launched last week, with a remit to identify and defuse potential areas of conflicts. The Area Bishop of Willesden, in London diocese, the Rt Revd Lusa ...

Genesis 1.1-2.3; Psalm 136 (136 1-9, 23-end); Romans 8.18-25; Matthew 6.25-end ONE scholar encourages us to savour the “combination of sapiential insight and apocalyptic vision in the anxieties ...

THE national director of the Church of England Evangelical Council (CEEC), the Revd John Dunnett, has resigned as an honorary canon of Chelmsford Cathedral over the decision to use prayers of blessing ...

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THE Christian retreat house Kilmalieu, on the shores of Loch Linnhe, is a renovated 18th-century hunting lodge surrounded by spectacular scenery and wildlife. The “Meeting God in Creation” retreat, ...

This week’s selection: a collection of pieces from Sojourners Magazine; a history of early and medieval Christianity; and an exploration of C. S. Lewis’s Christian faith “Light for the Way is a ...

EVER since the pandemic, I have been part of a group of neighbours cultivating a small plot of land in our street. We grow fruit and vegetables, have a small wildflower meadow (“patch” might be more ...

A COMPOSER, arranger, and conductor, Andrew Carter proved to be one of the most significant figures in English contemporary sacred music. He first attracted worldwide attention when paraphrasing the ...

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