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THE American Old Testament scholar Professor Walter Brueggemann has died, aged 92. A statement on his website said that he ...
A CONCERT series based in the former Cowley Fathers’ Church, St John the Evangelist, adjoining St Stephen’s House, Oxford, ...
A NEW Bank Well campaign to help churches to switch to banks that avoid investment in fossil fuels was launched last week.
NEW leaflets have been created by the support group Survivors Voices, including several that focus on abuse in a church ...
THE Church Commissioners have defended the research that they commissioned into whether their funds benefited from the ...
A RAILWAY MISSION calendar sent out by the national chaplaincy team has inspired a member of staff at Margate station to ...
St Peter’s is a welcoming evangelical church in the historic market town of Rushden, keen to share the good news of God’s ...
15 June, Proverbs 8.1-4, 22-31; Psalm 8; Romans 5.1-5; John 16.12-15 I BEGAN by wishing that the NRSV, AV, RSV, and NIV were all correct. The promise is so familiar: that, when he comes, the Spirit ...
IT IS often said that the Church of England is a “Church by law established”, by which we understand that our Church is founded on laws made by the Crown in Parliament. But behind that lies the detail ...
IN 2011, I was working among the resilient and vibrant people of Hackney, in east London. This was a place of significant diversity, where more than 50 languages were spoken in the local church ...
THE swift and virtually uncontested synodical election, on 24 May, of the Bishop of Islington, Dr Ric Thorpe, as the 14th Archbishop of Melbourne took many Anglicans by surprise (News, 30 May). Others ...
The Rt Revd Dr John Saxbee writes: BISHOP Geoffrey Hewlett Thompson died on 13 May, aged 95, survived by his wife, Joy, and their two daughters and two sons. Another clerical nonagenarian, Canon Lewis ...