Isaiah 61.1-6; Psalm 72 (1-9) 10-16; Ephesians 3.1-12; Matthew 2.1-12 THE festival of the Epiphany preserves its Greek name in the Western Church. By the second century, it was beginning to be kept as ...

THE Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, the Most Revd Kanishka Raffel, has told a gathering at the Great Synagogue, in Sydney, that Sydney Anglicans “abhor anti-Semitism. . . and will not turn away from ...

IN THE 1960s, Andover, in Hampshire, was one of the towns earmarked for expansion as part of London overspill: a policy, initiated in the 1930s, under which more than one million Londoners were ...

DUBLIN is to have a Roman Catholic cathedral for the first time in half a millennium. Pope Leo XIV has designated St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral as the cathedral of the archdiocese of Dublin. The ...

ASBRIDGE. The Revd Nigel Asbridge, Vicar of St Mary with St John, and St Mary’s Centre, Edmonton (London): 31 December. BUCKLEY. The Revd Christopher Buckley, Vicar of Belle Isle and Hunslet (Leeds): ...

THE congregation of St Boniface’s, Whipton, in Exeter, is feeling the benefit of a new underfloor heating system, which has been designed to maintain a steady temperature throughout the winter and to ...

I WAS in Exeter, almost unexpectedly. That feeling of sacred time, of being exactly where one is meant to be, hit me like a quiet wave. I had come to visit my sister, fresh from completing her Ph.D.

THE man who claims to have the highest IQ in the world has taken to the social-media platform X to profess his Christian faith in a post that has gone viral. Dr YoungHoon Kim, from South Korea, claims ...

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, ...

FAITH “saved” Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe during the bleakest period of her imprisonment in her homeland of Iran — experiences which have since led her to “park” the idea of faith, a public audience in ...

THERE is a buzz around the parish akin to “My dear Mr Bennet, have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?” We have a new incumbent arriving after an interregnum of more than two-and-a-half ...