1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (489+ words) We believe in a God who is faithful and able to do far more than we can ask or imagine. Yet life does not always unfold the way we expected. We pray, we persevere, we seek to be faithful and…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1163+ words) Year after year, we hear that the UK is getting warmer. This summer alone brought successive heatwaves and a prolonged dry spell, while the forecast for autumn is wet. Moments like these have a way of reminding us of something…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (542+ words) Recent reports have highlighted a subtle but significant change in the way the role of the sovereign has been described. Rather than simply being the Supreme Governor of the Church of England and Defender of the Faith, the emphasis has…...

2+ week, 14+ hour ago   (1303+ words) Gay activism was my passion. I felt suicidal throughout my teens. It was only when overcome with a crippling depression in 1985 that I broke down and came out to my parents when aged 17. Dad and Mum were amazing - merciful, kind,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (712+ words) I wrote an email to my local councillor and within three minutes received back a detailed reply summarising my concerns and promising action - a stunningly quick response. I was impressed, and grateful for the speedy reaction. But then a thought…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (574+ words) The CEO of the Centre for Government Reform has denounced the Church of England’s “Project Spire” reparations plan as a “foolhardy” crusade that “risks politicising and disunifying the church”. Ameer Kotecha, who previously served as a diplomat for the British…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1212+ words) The Church of England is right to look honestly at its past. Slavery was a monstrous evil. Africans were captured, sold, transported, and treated as property. Christians should neither minimise that horror nor excuse those who profited from it. But…...