MORE than 150 bishops of the Episcopal Church in the United States have called on Americans to stand up for their values and take action over the crisis that has led to the killing of two citizens in ...

Continue to be the person who exercises the gifts, wisdom, and experience that your life has given you,’ Archbishop of York tells the Most Revd Sarah Mullally ...

“COMMITTED Christians” are generous givers, donating an average of £326 per month — equating to ten per cent of their income and four times the the UK monthly giving average, the Stewardship’s ...

Sign up to receive the free Church Times weekday digest of church news, comment and analysis, faith features, arts reviews, and more. Plus enjoy exclusive offers and ...

SOUL SURVIVOR, WATFORD, will be one of three “missional engines” driving the church-planting and revitalisation strand of a programme in the diocese of St Albans which has been awarded £2.3 million by ...

They are, Dr Black says, “just turning up out of the blue, in really quite unusual ways”. In some instances, people have arrived having had a dream. Others have arrived “randomly” at prayer and ...

CHURCH buildings and places of worship have been burned to the ground in the fast-moving wildfires sweeping across parts of California. Among them is St Mark’s Episcopal Church, in Altadena, which was ...

THE Russian Supreme Court has banned the “International Satanism movement” after requests that it do so were officially brought forward by the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office and the Ministry of ...

A PERSIAN hymn composed by Bahram Dehqani-Tafti, the Bishop of Chelmsford’s brother, who was shot dead at the age of 24, is to be played on Radio 4 on Friday as part of Desert Island Discs. The Bishop ...

THE Irish writer Joseph O’Connor has a surprising Bible-reading habit. “I read some of the scriptures for five minutes every morning randomly,” he says. “I loved the bit this morning which made me ...

THE immediate closure of Spurgeon’s College, the Baptist theological college in south London founded in 1856 by the celebrated preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon, was announced on Friday. The ...

THE historian Tom Holland has written about the Roman and Persian empires; he has examined with a sceptical eye the foundational myths of Islam. Now he has turned his attention to our own civilisation ...