The official word on what will happen to the Wesley Owen bookshops and the other parts of the IBS-STL (UK) business

21/12/2009 13:00:00 | 8 comments | Email a friend

The final version of the Anglican Communion Covenant was released on Friday. The Archbishop of Canterbury talks about it in a video.

21/12/2009 09:55:00 | No comments | Email a friend

Christian Aid: They have failed to deliver fair and binding emissions targets that will prevent average global temperatures rising to catastrophic levels. And they have failed to establish adequate funding for developing countries.

21/12/2009 09:18:00 | No comments | Email a friend

Wesley Owen, the UK largest chain of Christian bookshops, is to close.

19/12/2009 11:25:00 | 4 comments | Email a friend

The Christmas issue of the Church Times is now available. It is a double issue covering two weeks, which means there is more of everything and certain things are bigger.

18/12/2009 13:00:00 | 1 comment | Email a friend

Simon Mayo interviewed the Archbishop of Canterbury today on BBC Radio 5 Live / Statistics on churchgoing have been released / discussion on Nick Baines' site continues to be really interesting

16/12/2009 19:46:00 | No comments | Email a friend

From Friday's Church Times, Christmas visitors rebuffed describes how campaigners opposed to child detention were turned away from the Yarl's Wood immigration centre in Bedfordshire when they attempted to distribute presents to children.

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My computer is now on the verge of crashing under the strain, so I must post an emergency selection of links from the last week or so

14/12/2009 09:00:00 | 1 comment | Email a friend

An interesting blog post by Joe Turner: a black day for fairtrade in which he points out that only just over 1% of Nestlé chocolate will be fairtrade

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The Bishop of Ballarat in Australia, Michael Hough, has taken to the road during the first week of the Copenhagen summit.

11/12/2009 09:10:00 | 2 comments | Email a friend

The video includes an interview with the Archbishop of Canterbury, conducted by Mark Dowd at Saturday's Wave event.

09/12/2009 13:00:00 | 1 comment | Email a friend

The mysterious Church Mouse and Peter Ould have launched the Twurch of England website which lists new Twitter updates from Church of England clergy

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The Episcopal Church in the US has elected Rev Mary Glasspool, a lesbian, to serve as a bishop. A roundup of news and commentary.

07/12/2009 08:45:00 | 1 comment | Email a friend

Writers, speakers and performers Adrian and Bridget Plass have moved to the Scargill House site in order to help get the new Scargill Movement project off the ground.

04/12/2009 11:50:00 | No comments | Email a friend

The forthcoming Copenhagen talks feature heavily in today's Church Times. In the News section, Campaigners light blue touch-paper for Copenhagen talks and Decided in Denmark: a climate Q and A, which asks the following questions.

04/12/2009 09:00:00 | 1 comment | Email a friend

A notice was posted in last week's Bookseller asking for those owed money by SSG, owners of the former SPCK bookshop chain, to come forward.

04/12/2009 08:20:00 | No comments | Email a friend

In case you are one of those people who just can’t abide the Advent call to slow down and to prepare with patience, York Minster has just the thing.

03/12/2009 10:20:00 | 1 comment | Email a friend

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