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Institute launched to save legacy of religious lifeTHE Society of the Sacred Mission has launched the Herbert Kelly Institute for Anglican Religious Life, which seeks to preserve the legacy of Anglican religious communities.…
Stories of hope told on Hurricane Katrina anniversary
TWENTY years after Hurricane Katrina caused devastation on the Gulf Coast of the United States, stories of hope and resilience are being told in churches that it changed for ever. Katrina, one of the deadliest and costliest…
Patriarchs of Alexandria and Moscow in territory dispute
THE Patriarch of Alexandria, Theodoros II, has condemned “uncanonical and unbrotherly actions” by the Moscow Patriarchate, after it announced new territorial names for Orthodox dioceses in Africa. “The challenge for our…
US priest who founded a Christian psychedelic society unfrocked
AN EPISCOPALIAN priest in the United States, the Revd Hunt Priest, who founded a Christian psychedelic society, has been unfrocked, after an investigation concluded that he was using his position to endorse hallucinogenic…
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Church leaders recall 1925 Stockholm ConferenceTHE centenary of the inter-denominational Universal Christian Conference on Life and Work, convened by Archbishop Nathan Söderblom in Stockholm, an early landmark in the…
Cardinal Newman’s kindly light shines on
WHEN the Pope approved plans to declare the English St John Henry Newman 38th Doctor of the Universal Church, the news was welcomed across the Roman Catholic world (News, 8 August). Knowing that one of their number, active…
Before embracing Faragism, try this. . .
POLITICAL scientists use the “Overton window” to measure how ideas move in and out of fashion. At its centre is the current political consensus. Outside the window, either to the left or the right, policies move through a…
No wonder Chris Brain did not care for sin
THE early- to mid-1990s were not an easy time to discern the way forward for the Church of England. The Decade of Evangelism was almost at the halfway point, and yet there was no obvious sign of growth. Synodical provision…
Malcolm Guite: Poet’s Corner
THERE’s something to be said for old poetry anthologies rather than new ones. To read them is to be freed from the confinements and narrow perspectives of contemporary taste, and to wonder a little in the larger and more…
Leader comment: Be vigilant
ALMOST exactly 30 years ago to the day, the front page of the Church Times carried a story with the headline “Service closed after abuse revelations”. The diocese of Sheffield had disbanded what this paper described as the…
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