Good reason to rejoice

SIX YEARS AGO, when the Revd John Lomas arrived in the parish of Holywell, in the Welsh diocese of St Asaph, he found a badly damaged church hall...

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Four lines of love

THE IDEA came from Vanni Cook, a member of the local writers’ group: adults and children of all ages at St Eustachius’s in Tavistock, Exeter diocese...

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The rain held off — just

IT DRIZZLED, and was bitterly cold, says Jeremy Cousins, a member of the PCC at St Mary’s, Burnham-on-Crouch, in Chelmsford diocese; but most of...

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Made in Japan

ONE OF the oddest stories of the year has come from the parish of Fownhope, in Hereford diocese, when a group of Japanese tourists were so impressed...

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Honourable defeat

THEY WERE roundly defeated 70-0, but the mostly middle-aged ordinands of Cranmer Hall, Durham, had played a full 30 minutes each way against St...

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