JOHN the Evangelist does not do homely chit-chat. I cannot imagine him (or the other Evangelists) reporting a conversation between Jesus and his followers about the weather, or what they fancied for ...

A SERMON is not “an op-ed for a newspaper”, the former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Williams has said. “You are not just there to comment on current affairs, and I am always rather wary when I hear a ...

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 ...

The Rt Revd Bob Evens writes: JOHN MAYBURY grew up within the story of God’s love made visible by those who loved him. He was born in the Solomon Islands, one of four sons of medical-missionary ...

I BALANCED my sixth ham sandwich as daintily as I could on the small plate designed for perhaps half that number. I had found myself in the queue for refreshments at the royal garden party with a ...

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A LEADER of Ukraine’s Moscow-linked Orthodox Church (UOC) has condemned Patriarch Kirill of Moscow’s “selective compassion” towards war victims. “Ukrainian media reported that our armed forces had ...

THE coronation vesture and regalia underline what was understood by the author of the English rite, St Dunstan: that, through the rituals of the Coronation, the King becomes persona mixta: a “mixed ...

THE churchwardens of the Grade II listed St Peter’s, Little Budworth, have succeeded in persuading the Consistory Court of the diocese of Chester to grant a faculty permitting the sale by auction of a ...

LATVIA has become the first European country to confer official national status on a pagan religion, allowing its ministers to officiate at weddings, teach in schools, and serve as army and hospital ...

CHURCHGOING among young people, particularly men, in England and Wales is growing, but not within the Church of England, a new report from the Bible Society suggests. The report, The Quiet Revival, ...