An inspirational line-up of speakers from the world of faith, politics, literature, poetry, dance, economics, psychology, history and academia.

An inspirational line-up of speakers from the world of faith, politics, literature, poetry, dance, economics, psychology, history and academia.

LINCOLN CATHEDRAL will be celebrating a milestone in its musical history this weekend: the 30th anniversary of the introduction of girl choristers. They first sang on 21 November 1995, St Cecilia’s ...

IN 1969, Michael Stancliffe arrived from St Margaret’s, Westminster as the new Dean of Winchester. Three years later, he invited his former organist from St Margaret’s, Martin Neary, to join him. By ...

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 ...

SECONDARY school pupils who lack confidence in expressing their own religious beliefs, or openness to hearing those of others, are being helped by new resources exploring “the lived experience of ...

AS A Roman Catholic child living on the Franco-German border, I learned the language of faith long before I understood its meaning. Words such as “holy”, “glory”, and “virgin birth” were markings on a ...

THE Church in Wales will vote in 2027 on allowing same-sex marriage in church, after a decision taken by the Bench of Bishops this week. In a pastoral letter released on Thursday morning, the Bishops ...

MAYBE it was a Monty Python sketch that first introduced the idea of competitive grievance. Four Yorkshiremen tell stories of their deprived childhoods, each trumping the other in exaggerated ...

THE Church of England has been trying to tackle race-related issues for decades, with varying degrees of success. The latest round of initiatives stemmed from the Anti-Racism Taskforce, which was ...

THE Consistory Court of the diocese of Carlisle has granted a faculty, despite the opposition of the diocesan advisory committee (DAC), for a hatchment to be hung in St Michael’s, Bowness-on-Solway, ...

Have a go at our next caption competition (above). Send entries by email only to [email protected] by 9 a.m., Monday 1 December. We invite readers’ ideas for photos: please provide ...