RULES accompanying the new Clergy Conduct Measure will come before General Synod next month. This follows a vote in the House of Lords on Wednesday to send the Measure to the King for Royal Assent.

BRITAIN is turning over Prime Ministers — six in ten years — at almost the precipitous rate at which Manchester United changes its managers: eight since the departure of the long-serving Sir Alex ...

ADDRESSING the House of Lords in 1874, the Bishop of Peterborough, Dr William Connor Magee, delivered a thunderous denunciation. “We know only too well the announcements of ‘eligible livings’, with ...

ANYONE who thought that the UK’s relationship with the European Union was settled once and for all on 23 June 2016 might ponder two new facts that emerged last week. First, the BBC reported that new ...

I HAVE always known that I am adopted. But I did not know until a few years ago that the Church of England had overseen my forced adoption. The Church has now published a report on historical adoption ...

HAVING begun my ministry as a mother of young children, and, therefore, a somewhat obscure member of the local population, known more for being “the mother of X” than a person in my own right, I ...

ARMSTRONG. The Revd Susan Armstrong, NS Associate Vicar of Rotherham Minster and Masbrough (Sheffield): 26 July. BURSON-THOMAS. The Revd Michael Burson-Thomas, Hon. Priest-in-Charge of Pennington ...

STRONG frustration” that a report on the seal of confession remains with the House of Bishops and has “effectively been paused for over a year” has been expressed by members of the Task and Finish ...

NEW working groups on sexuality will be chaired by the Bishop of Sodor & Man, the Rt Revd Tricia Hillas, and the Bishop of Winchester, the Rt Revd Philip Mounstephen. Bishop Hillas will chair a new ...

Proper 8: Jeremiah 28.5-9; Psalm 89.1-4,15-18; Romans 6.12-23; Matthew 10.40-42 THE three verses that constitute this Gospel lection get a whole Sunday to themselves; so, their key message ought to be ...