On 3 October 2025, it was announced that the Bishop of London, Sarah Mullally, is to be the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury. She is to be the first woman to hold the post. Her formal election by the ...

Welby’s duties dispatched, war, ceasefire, Synod, failed Bishops’ appointments, political wranglings, and a new Pope. What made the headlines in the Church Times? Read reports from issues stretching ...

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 ...

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 ...

AN UNDERGROUND crypt has been uncovered in the churchyard of All Saints’, Martock, in Somerset, after an 18th-century tomb collapsed on Saturday. The resulting 12-foot sinkhole has been cordoned off ...

LOUISA ELLIOTT (not her real name) remembers her marriage preparation — but not in a good way. She and her fiancé visited the vicarage of her mother’s rural parish. It was the 1980s, and the vicar, a ...

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 ...

AS WE approach the 30th anniversary of the admission of women to priest’s orders, I still find it a surprise and a delight that the Church has embraced women’s ministry. We now have significant ...

BISHOPS of the Episcopal Church in the United States have asked their clergy to refrain from endorsing political candidates from the pulpit, despite a change in federal-tax policy that allows them to ...

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THE new Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, has described himself as a “Bible-believing Christian” in his first interviews after the election. He has been criticised ...

TYPE the question “Is it OK for a Christian to watch . . .?” into Google and it auto-completes in a way that is, in equal parts, informative, amusing, and depressing. At or near the top of that ...