The event 60 years ago came about owing to a set of extraordinary circumstances. On the evening of 20 April, St Davids Cathedral was the venue for the BBC Home Service broadcast Choral Evensong. Mr ...

GOD needs to speak to us in our own language. As the Anglican poet Malcolm Guite puts it: “Hail your God in any language, he replies in your own mother tongue” (David’s Crown: Sounding the Psalms; ...

A MEMORIAL service for people infected and affected by the contaminated-blood scandal was held on Tuesday in St Paul’s Cathedral — a place “where the spirit to sing, to shout, to scream it out is so ...

Acts 2.1-21; Psalm 104.26-36,37b; 1 Corinthians 12.3b-13; John 20.19-23/7.37-39 THIS Gospel made me wonder: what if there were eight “I am” sayings of Jesus? The Gospel includes seven of these sayings ...

HERITAGE groups have nominated a once-imposing 600-seater Victorian church for inclusion on a global at-risk list, and urged the diocese of Manchester not to let the building be demolished. Friends of ...

AN END to “unrealistic” job-descriptions when clergy appointments are made is among the recommendations in the paper on clergy well-being launched on Tuesday. It includes a draft Covenant for Clergy ...

CLERGY in Ireland for whom ill health prevents their continuing in ministry will have to apply to the Clergy Permanent Health Insurance policy (Clergy PHI) if they are to receive a stipend and reside ...

I AM sitting in the pew, waiting for the service of holy communion to start. I feel alone, and yet I am not lonely, surrounded by other church members. I do my best to make conversation with the ...