WHEN the diocese of Liverpool put its independent evaluation of the Transforming Wigan (TW) project in the public domain, it bucked a trend (News, 29 September 2023). Few evaluations of projects ...

THE most striking thing about the evangelism of the mainstream Churches in secular countries is how very useless it is. It’s one of those things so obvious that everyone has to ignore it if the ...

Susan Grey views the artist Mark Cazalet’s depictions of Christ’s baptism and a Samaritan woman This January, commemorating those who lost their lives in the fire, two new lancet windows were ...

THERE has been much criticism of the Rt Revd Justin Welby for saying, in a BBC interview with Laura Kuenssberg this week, that he “forgives” John Smyth. In reality, his comments were much more nuanced ...

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GERHARD RICHTER, now (at 93) the grand old man of German art, put the problem succinctly in 1964: “Art is not a substitute religion. . . But the Church is no longer adequate as a means of offering ...

This week’s selection: St Paul as a preacher; a life of St Francis; and a theology of gender diversity “Much has been written about the life, ministry, and theology of the apostle Paul. But what about ...

Both the rain and the roots in Chaucer’s couplet are also there in Eliot’s lines; but what a difference of tone and tenor! In between these two masters, each an emblem of the age in which they lived, ...

I ENJOYED the thoughtful, funny, and accessible Sunday School for Misfits with Dr Selina Stone. Season 6, Episode 10, Why (why?), why (why?) Tell ’em that it’s human nature, features Dr Stone, a ...

If this is, as he hopes, the last time he goes on television, perhaps we should all breathe a sigh of relief, and pray that he does indeed pursue total obscurity. Maybe Welby should take note of the ...

A RECENT reference to “the naked soul of man”, revealed by the extreme conditions through which the explorer Shackleton moved, reminded me of the experience of having my head shaved before all my hair ...

LORD BALFOUR’s visit to the Holy Land is a deplorable farce. He has travelled, well guarded, through sullen villages and empty streets, from one Jewish colony to another, ignoring facts and making ...