THE bestselling American Christian writer Philip Yancey — whose books include What’s So Amazing About Grace? — has said that he is “retiring from writing, speaking, and social media” after confessing ...

PLANS to demolish up to 400 properties in central Blackpool have created a culture of fear, the assistant curate leading Beacon Church, the parish church, said this week. The curate, the Revd Matt ...

THE invitation from the Church Times was absurd, but irresistible: to go to the V&A East Storehouse in Hackney Wick, use the magnificent new scheme that lets you order up five objects, which will be ...

The Church Times Next Suffragan Bishop of Grimsby announced THE next Suffragan Bishop of Grimsby, in Lincoln diocese, is to be the Ven. Jean Burgess, the Archdeacon of Bournemouth since 2023, Downing ...

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 ...

THE “prolific, brutal and horrific” abuse perpetrated by John Smyth, a Reader in the Church of England, was covered up by “powerful evangelical clergy”, the long-awaited Makin review has concluded.

THE Church of England conducted fewer weddings than ever in 2023, as the number of people in England and Wales getting married in religious ceremonies slumped to a new low. In total, 216,901 weddings ...

FAILURE has not only marked modern Catholic social institutions, or efforts at Protestant reformation, of course — it has marked the entire history of Christian Ireland. By definition, it could not be ...