A review published in 2021, by the Very Revd Professor Iain Torrance, Pro-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen and a ...

I HAVE recently undergone a five-hour operation under general anaesthetic to remove two large stones from my left parotid ...

THE Bishop of St Albans, Dr Alan Smith, has called for a national strategy to address the rise in religiously aggravated hate crime, after Home Office statistics published last week showed an increase ...

WHILE I was in Oklahoma City, I had a chance to visit the collection of rare books in the university there, in the company of Kerry Magruder, who looks after the world’s finest collections of books on ...

WITHOUT a rise in the number of ordinations, the number of stipendiary clergy in the Church of England will fall to 5400 in 2033 — more than 2000 fewer than the target set under Renewal and Reform, ...

11 Type of cinema has divine shot including rector (5-2) ...

I worry that even the best intentions can lead to unintended consequences, and that the desire to help our neighbour could, unintentionally, open the door to yet more pain and suffering for those we ...

This week’s selection: a new religious metaphysics; Tom Wright’s crash course on Acts; and novelistic representations of sainthood “What is ‘truth’? The question that Pilate put to Jesus was laced ...

A SHOWER-DODGING walk in the Meon Valley last week took me to three ancient churches marking the missionary journey of St Wilfred to the pagan Meonwara at the end of the seventh century. All three ...

IN ANOTHER column our Manchester correspondent reports that the Rev. G. H. Ensor, the new vicar of Leyland, has demanded that all his Sunday school teachers shall make a solemn promise that they will ...

27 October, Proper 25: Jeremiah 31.7-9; Psalm 126; Hebrews 7.23-end; Mark 10.46-end THREE Gospel verbs tumble one after another: “Take heart; get up, he is calling you.” NIV breezily puts it: “Cheer ...