A CAMPAIGN to raise awareness of the legal duty to refer safeguarding concerns to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) is being rolled out by the DBS across south-eastern England. The campaign, ...

PEOPLE used to die. Now, it seems, they pass away. Or — say it quickly and quietly enough no one will even notice — they just pass. Media outlets report the passing of someone famous. Undertakers now ...

DESPITE polling heralded as revealing a “quiet revival”, the Church of England is — by almost every measure and in almost every diocese — smaller than it was in 2018, this year’s Statistics for ...

WHEN John Clarkson was Governor of Sierra Leone in the late 18th century, he named a waterfront settlement in the centre of the country’s capital after his fiancée, Susan Lee. It was a lovely gesture ...

I HAD always thought that studying theology should make me more complex, and that, by the time I left theological college, I would have a big vocabulary that I could use to impress members of the ...

GAFCON is “now the Global Anglican Communion”, the chairman of the group’s Primates Council, the Archbishop of Rwanda, Dr Laurent Mbanda, has declared. In a letter to supporters on Thursday, Dr Mbanda ...

THE Revd Sarah Chapman was an outstanding pastoral priest who served in four dioceses and was known for gifts of discernment, healing, and prayer ministry. Sarah was born and grew up in Kenya. She ...

THE death of Pope Francis triggered an avalanche of commemoration. What stood out was his commitment to serving the marginalised and, in particular, the incarcerated. As someone who has recently been ...