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General Synod digest: Questions raised over delays to Living in Love and Faith timetable

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The Dean, the Very Revd Catherine Ogle, has announced that she will immediately hand over leadership of the cathedral, before her previously announced retirement on 1 May

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The welfare of detained British citizens in Iran was the subject of a House of Lords debate called by the Bishop of Chelmsford, Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani, on Thursday

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The award-winning actor, writer, and producer Gbemisola Ikumelo is inspired by the Bible, she tells Susan Gray

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"Those who had sought comfort and absolution in the confessional simply decided that they would make up their own minds — on sex and, by association, on other matters, too." In the Books section this week, Peter Stanford looks at the decline in going to confession in the US

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A review of Winchester Cathedral identified “significant failings in leadership and management”, the Bishop of Winchester, the Rt Revd Philip Mounstephen, said on Monday, when a summary of the review was published

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General Synod digest: ‘Sick’ Clergy Discipline Measure replaced

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General Synod digest: Makin debate and motion urges Church to ‘redouble’ safeguarding efforts

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The Church of England is “not at the point of separation yet” over sexuality issues, the bishop leading the Living in Love and Faith (LLF) implementation says

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@chinemcdonald.bsky.social speaking at the @churchtimes.bsky.social festival of literature - on her new book on motherhood. Raising lots of provocative questions about Mary and the Jesus movement

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General Synod digest: Speaker suggests use of ‘big stick’ in Lowest Income Communities Funding

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Have a go at our latest crossword and see last week's solutions ⬇️

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Amy Scott Robinson considers articles of faith for children

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General Synod digest: ‘I am deeply dismayed by our failings’ says Archbishop of York

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General Synod digest: Tensions high over bid to mandate representation of women on vacancy-in-see committees

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Theology matters: Prioritising presence over persuasion Ian Mobsby suggests a new model for mission, based on contemplative prayer

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"This is an important account of an extraordinary writer who is often misread and misrepresented." Michael Wheeler reviews Dickens the Enchanter: Inside the explosive imagination of the great storyteller by Peter Conrad

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Church-led projects are helping to tackle the housing crisis, Guli Francis-Dehqani finds

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A chance meeting casts a new light on Malcolm Guite’s sermon illustration

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“I resent being made a pawn in church politics,” a rector has said after resigning from her charge in the diocese of Aberdeen & Orkney. She described the situation in the diocese as “untenable”.

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Bishop Worsley will serve as the Suffragan Bishop of Wigan, after the Archbishop of York petitioned the King to revive the see. She will have diocesan powers delegated from Archbishop Cottrell

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The PCC of a village church in Herefordshire has been refused permission to reorder the interior — to include a new community library and children’s area — because the plans involve moving the font.

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General Synod digest: Questions of trust and power as members debate CNC changes

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Church-school playgroup given notice to quit after trustees given advice from DBE

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As the UK and US cut aid funding, the case for helping people in poverty overseas must be made, argues Helen Morgan

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Angela Tilby: On the Baltic coast, war feels close

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Chistians are generous charitable givers, but “committed Christians” — defined as those who attend church and read the Bible at least once a week — are found to be the most generous, in the 2025 Generosity Report from the organisation Stewardship

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The Consistory Court of the diocese of Lincoln has granted a faculty permitting the exhumation and cremation of remains that had been buried in the consecrated part of Canwick cemetery in 1992, so that they could be transported for reburial in a cemetery in Shenzhen, China.

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‘Set mortgage prisoners free’ says Bishop of Chelmsford

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General Synod digest: Working-class people ‘know who they are’

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General Synod digest: Members consider CNC proposal to scrap secret ballot

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The Pope’s clinical condition, while improving, remains “complex” and the prognosis “guarded”, Vatican News reports #popefrancis

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Latest Viewpoint from @seatrout.bsky.social, in which he thinks about original sin, as it shadows the optimism of the progressive world.

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Check out the latest cartoon from @davewalker.bsky.social 👇 The new electoral roll: how to persuade people to join it

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Quotes of the week

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"T. S. Eliot was not only the best-known poet of his time but its most distinguished critic. On the evidence of these volumes, he must count also as one of its most compelling writers of prose." Richard Harries reviews The Collected Prose of T. S. Eliot (four volumes), edited by Archie Burnett

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The Bishop of Taunton, the Rt Revd Ruth Worsley, is to be the Interim Bishop of Liverpool, it was announced on Friday — just under a month after the resignation of Dr John Perumbalath

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How to bring art into sacred spaces Inviting creatives to collaborate can introduce new colour to churches of all sizes, says Laura Moffatt

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Europe must wake up to populist surge The AfD’s success in the polls is part of a wider trend, writes Paul Vallely

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The latest issue of the Church Times is out today! On the front page this week, the news that ten members of the clergy, including two bishops, could be subject to disciplinary proceedings in connection with the abuse perpetrated by John Smyth. Read the full story online.

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“Very serious and urgent” #safeguarding concerns at Bangor Cathedral have prompted the Archbishop of Wales, the Most Revd Andy John, also the Bishop of Bangor, to order a visitation

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Fourteen staff at the New York headquarters of the Episcopal Church in the United States have been made redundant this month, as part of a Church-wide reorganisation led by the Presiding Bishop, Dr Sean Rowe, to save $2.13 million (£1.68 million) a year

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Tanks were deployed around Jenin refugee camp at the weekend, as Israel stepped up its displacement of Palestinians in three refugee camps in the occupied West Bank

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The Bishop of Leicester, the Rt Revd Martyn Snow, posted on X: “Taking money from overseas aid is absolutely the wrong thing to do. I was proud of Starmer’s willingness to stand with Ukraine but increasing defence spending in this way, and for these very dubious reasons, is simply wrong.”

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A former Lord Chancellor, Sir Robert Buckland, has been appointed as the new Third Church Estates Commissioner

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Book review: Graham James reads Cultivating a life of holy attention by Sarah Clarkson, a deep reflection on the spiritual life

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“These cuts — a political decision echoing Trump’s race to the bottom on aid — are nothing short of a betrayal that will erode trust and fan the flames of global insecurity.”

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