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Clergy popping into Soho are offered a hot drink in post-Christmas slump
THE prophet Isaiah saw that those who waited for the Lord would renew their strength, “walk and not faint”, but clergy in need of a further earthly boost may direct their footsteps to St Anne’s, Soho, in London, where the…
Don’t take the strain alone, Christians Against Poverty tells anxious debtors
MORE than 15 million people in the UK “suffer daily anxiety about their finances”, and the “post-Christmas period often add more pressure”, the chief executive of Christians Against Poverty, Stewart McCulloch, has said before…
Dioceses’ financial flow changes course with 2026
DIOCESAN apportionment — under which dioceses made financial contributions to cover the costs of centralised services, including clergy retirement housing — officially ended this month.Its abolition formed a key plank of the…
St Nicholas’s Day brings patronal gifts for Somerset church
ST NICHOLAS’s, Kittisford, in Somerset, has won the Patronal Festival Award 2025, for the service and reception that it held with funding from the Choral Evensong Trust. It was one of 80 churches awarded either a…
Bulgaria puts its saints where its money is
BULGARIA has become the first European Union member state to include Christian saints on its euro coins, after joining the EU’s single currency at the New Year. Adoption of the euro, which will replace the lev, used since…
TV review: Cèilidh na Bliadhn’ Ùire 2025 and 2025: The year from space
FOR New Year, I decided to forgo my annual hate-watch of Jools Holland’s Annual Hootenanny, and, on the advice of a Church Times reader, I tuned into BBC Alba’s Cèilidh na Bliadhn’ Ùire 2025 (31 December, iPlayer). This…
TV review: Cèilidh na Bliadhn’ Ùire 2025 and 2025: The year from space
FOR New Year, I decided to forgo my annual hate-watch of Jools Holland’s Annual Hootenanny, and, on the advice of a Church Times reader, I tuned into BBC Alba’s Cèilidh na Bliadhn’ Ùire 2025 (31 December, iPlayer). This…
What is Quantum?, Sunday Worship, and Sunday
IN THE programme What Is Quantum? (Radio 4, 30 December), Marnie Chesterton travelled to the remote German island of Heligoland — worth a documentary in its own right — to get the world’s sharpest quantum physicists to…
Christian death toll in Nigeria could double this year, charity warns
WITHOUT “swift action” and an end to “global silence”, Christian “martyrdoms” in Nigeria may double in 2026, the charity Release International warns.On Tuesday, the Chritian charity published Persecution Trends 2026, a report…
The Baptism of Christ, 1st Sunday of Epiphany
Isaiah 42.1-9; Psalm 29; Acts 10.34-43; Matthew 3.13-endTHE Baptism of Christ, taken with the Epiphany, sets the pattern for each new year of our discipleship. Last week, the identity of the Christ-child was made known to the…
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