MEN still outnumber women as incumbents by more than two to one in the Church of England, statistics published for the General Synod show. Across the dioceses, 30.4 per cent of incumbents are women.

They are, Dr Black says, “just turning up out of the blue, in really quite unusual ways”. In some instances, people have arrived having had a dream. Others have arrived “randomly” at prayer and ...

HOSPICE UK, which represents more than 200 hospices, raised the alarm in April last year about a £77-million deficit that the sector was facing. Since then, the situation has got only worse, says the ...

THE Ecclesiastical Committee of Parliament is expected to send the draft Clergy Conduct Measure (CCM) back to the General Synod for further consideration rather than approve its passage into law. On ...

THE Church of Ireland has been drawn into the growing global Anglican rift after two diocesan bishops publicly endorsed GAFCON’s rejection of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s authority. The Bishop of ...

THE founder of Soul Survivor, Mike Pilavachi, has been stripped of his MBE for “bringing the honours system into disrepute”, a government notice has confirmed. Mr Pilavachi, whose abuse of power was ...

SURVIVORS of abuse in the Jesus Fellowship/Jesus Army — described by its trustees as “widespread and systemic” — were the focus of a new BBC documentary on the sect, broadcast on Sunday evening. Among ...

ISRAEL has committed “genocidal acts” in Gaza, and the situation in the occupied West Bank amounts to “apartheid” and “ethnic cleansing”, the Archbishop of York has said. Archbishop Cottrell used the ...

THE abuse of power exhibited by Mike Pilavachi was enabled by a “wholesale” failure of organisational culture at Soul Survivor, where staff were afraid of the consequences of raising concerns — and, ...

THE coronation vesture and regalia underline what was understood by the author of the English rite, St Dunstan: that, through the rituals of the Coronation, the King becomes persona mixta: a “mixed ...

WHAT is the Nicene Creed’s doctrine of the atonement? Can you recite it? No. That is because there isn’t one. The creed tells us that there was an atonement: that — for our salvation — Christ came ...