A YOUNG mum came to see me last week to enquire about the church, and ask about what we believed and what we expected of her.

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SOLAR panels — 184 of them — have been installed and blessed on the roof of York Minster. The Dean, the Very Revd Dominic Barrington, prayed: “Bless these solar panels that they may help us in our ...

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THE first new parish in the diocese of Guildford for 25 years has been established at the site of the former Deepcut army barracks in Surrey. The former garrison church, St Barbara’s, built as a tin ...

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THIS week’s column is about the online media that have largely replaced the press, and even TV, as the means through which people understand their societies. It is largely inspired by Henry Farrell, a ...

Karl Barth on Religion: A critique by Keith Ward (Cambridge University Press, £23.99 (£21.59); 978-1-009-55541-8). “In this study, Keith Ward offers a detailed critique of Barth's views on religion ...

CHURCH buildings and places of worship have been burned to the ground in the fast-moving wildfires sweeping across parts of California. Among them is St Mark’s Episcopal Church, in Altadena, which was ...

MORE than one third of adults in the UK are anxious about their everyday finances, new polling from Christians Against Poverty (CAP) suggests. Through its latest campaign, “Budget not Blues”, the ...

A CEASEFIRE was agreed between Hamas and Israel on Wednesday evening, according to media reports. Exact details of the deal remain unconfirmed, but media reports suggest that the agreement is ...

NEWS of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas on Wednesday evening has been welcomed with caution, after overnight Israeli missile strikes were reported to have killed more than 80 people. On ...