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WEB2 days ago · Podcast: Diarmaid MacCulloch on Lower Than the Angels: A history of sex and Christianity. 20 Sep 2024. The Church Times is known for informed and independent reporting of Church and world news. Each issue includes wide-ranging features and interviews, Bible commentary, lively debate on current …
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WEB10 hours ago · The UK is ranked in the bottom ten per cent of nations globally for biodiversity. The campaign, organised by Wild Card and Christian Climate Action, has the support of more than 100,000 members of the public, who have signed a petition on the website 38Degrees. Lord Williams said: “Letting the natural world be itself — not just a reserve bank for our convenience — is an act of grace, and ...
Marsha de Cordova appointed Second Church Estates Commissioner
WEB1 day ago · by Madeleine Davies. 07 October 2024. THE new Second Church Estates Commissioner is Marsha de Cordova MP, who succeeds Andrew Selous, it was announced on Monday. Ms de Cordova, the Labour MP for Battersea since 2017, is the second woman to hold the post (the first was Caroline Spelman, from 2015 to …
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WEBSep 27, 2024 · SEVEN Church of England bishops, including the former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Williams, have signed an open letter to the Prime Minister which urges him to block the drilling of the Rosebank oilfield. 04 Oct 2024.
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WEB4 days ago · SEVEN Church of England bishops, including the former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Williams, have signed an open letter to the Prime Minister which urges him to block the drilling of the Rosebank oilfield. 04 Oct 2024.
Calls to appoint religious-freedom envoy soon - The Church Times
WEB4 days ago · CAMPAIGNERS have voiced concern that no religious-freedom envoy has been announced in time to represent the UK at an international conference of government ministers, religious leaders, and civil-society figures on 10 October.. Furthermore, the Bishop of Winchester, the Rt Revd Philip Mounstephen, said that the continued lack of a Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or ...
Sunday's readings - Church Times
WEBAug 16, 2024 · St Michael and All Angels. 29 September, Genesis 28.10-17; Psalm 103.19-end; Revelation 12.7-12; John 1.47-end
New churches are dropping the word ‘church’, report finds
WEBAug 13, 2024 · DIOCESES have jettisoned the use of the word “church” in describing the “new things” being established in their parishes, raising questions about what theology is being applied in the Church of England, an independent report says.. New Things: A theological investigation into the work of starting new churches across 11 dioceses in the Church of England reports that, in the past ten ...
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WEBApr 5, 2024 · UK news in brief. Easter around the UK: Congregation members from Portobello and Joppa (Church of Scotland) Parish Church, Edinburgh, gather on the beach at sunrise on Easter Day. See gallery for more images. Bishop of Warrington ‘away from diocese’. THE Suffragan Bishop of Warrington, in the diocese of Liverpool, the Rt Revd Beverley Mason ...
No churchwardens and vacant PCC posts: an ... - The Church Times
WEBMar 15, 2024 · As of 2022, 36 per cent of the Church’s worshipping community was aged 70 and above. The average age is 61, and, while this might once have meant a large pool of potential volunteers among the retired (the diocese of Lichfield estimates that 68 per cent of its churchwardens are above state retirement age), many have other demands on their time.. A 2017 YouGov poll commissioned by Age UK ...