A £2.6-BILLION transfer of assets from the Church Commissioners to diocesan stipend funds, to be used to support parish ...

A sports charity set up by the diocese of Gloucester, Sportily, is now taking on the sports project after the NSWP wound up ...

A SHAKE-UP of funding flows between the Archbishops’ Council and dioceses, set out in a paper to come before the General ...

“THE time for review has passed, and now is the time for action” on safeguarding, the chief executive of the Charity Commission, David Holdsworth, said this week, in a highly unusual intervention from ...

THE “reset” of safeguarding in the Church of England must have mandatory reporting at its heart, the Bishop of London told the House of Lords last Friday. She was speaking during a debate on a Private ...

Why We Believe: Finding meaning in uncertain times by Alister McGrath (Oneworld, £18.99 (Church Times SPECIAL OFFER PRICE £15.19); 978-0-86154-921-4). “Alister McGrath offers a fresh perspective on ...

CHURCHES are providing nearly one fifth of the venues participating in the national Warm Welcome Spaces campaign, which is described by the former Prime Minister Gordon Brown as “a chain of hope . . .

THE new membership of the United States Congress is composed overwhelmingly of Protestant Christians — far more so than the proportion of Christians among the general public, a new study shows. The ...

How are churches addressing the cost of living crisis? Pat Ashworth hears how congregations are addressing rising demand for support to make ends meet ...

TRANSFERRING the Church of England’s diocesan and national safeguarding staff to an independent body would take at least three years, a paper recommending the proposal says. Radical change was ...

DON CUPITT, who died on Saturday, was a hugely significant figure in English theology, who gave birth to the Sea of Faith movement after his six-part television series of 1984. I first met Don in 1969 ...

PILGRIMAGE — along with midnight mass, cathedral evensong, and the latest Charismatic church-plant in a town near you — is a trend-bucker amid the general picture of religious decline in the UK. The ...