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Church deemed at risk in 2019 wins £4.5m National Lottery Heritage Fund grant
PLANS to carry out the “most ambitious restoration project in the history of the area” at Holy Trinity, Hastings, have won a £4.5-million grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF).Alongside restoring the building,…
Liberal Democrat MP Paul Kohler pushes for restorative-justice right
A LIBERAL DEMOCRAT MP who survived a “murderous” attack at home moved amendments to the Victims and Courts Bill on Monday to give victims of crime the right of referral to restorative-justice services.“Increasingly, when we…
Ensure benefits repayment plans are fair, Bishop of Leicester urges Government
A “REAL risk that many will . . . be pushed even deeper into poverty” was the concern expressed by the Bishop of Leicester, the Rt Revd Martyn Snow, about new legislation in the House of Lords last week. Speaking in the…
Full ban on conversion therapy would ‘criminalise mainstream Christian teaching’, Government told
AN OPEN letter to the Government warning that its plans for a “full, trans-inclusive ban on conversion practices” could “criminalise mainstream, historic Christian teaching on marriage and sexual ethics, and make sharing the…
Rural parish to undergo ‘church health check’
A REVIEW of the contention in the parish of Malpas, about 15 miles south of Chester, has been commissioned, after protests went public in the city in April. Flyers setting out grievances against the Rector of St Oswald’s,…
Photo stories of the week
Royal visit: the King visited Lichfield Cathedral last week, when he met community groups and heard about the inspiration for the Fenland Black Oak Table, a 13-metre-long table made from a section of 5000-year-old black oak,…
UK news in brief
New postgrad course for theological educators TRINITY COLLEGE, Bristol, launched a postgraduate research track for theological educators, on Tuesday. The track will include a three-year Level 8 module that covers classroom…
Anger voiced over House of Bishops’ Living in Love and Faith decision
THE Church of England’s Living in Love and Faith process, begun more than eight years ago in hopes of achieving a consensus on sexuality (News, 17 February 2017), has come under fire from both progressive and conservative…
Church of England shrinks again, Statistics for Mission reports
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 Mission show.The data,…
Church of England Statistics for Mission contradict claims of Quiet Revival
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 Mission show.The data,…
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