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Fairtrade

30 years of the Foundation and ethical working

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Flexible approach

volunteering in a changed society

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A reflection

800 years since St Francis’s stigmata

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Archdeacon with church-growth remit to be Bishop of Southampton

THE next Suffragan Bishop of Southampton, in Winchester diocese, is to be the Ven. Rhiannon King, currently the Archdeacon of the Ipswich, in St Edmundsbury & Ipswich diocese, Downing Street announced on Friday  

13 Sep 2024

After deadlocks, Crown Nominations Commission’s secret ballots may end

THE secret ballot by which diocesan bishops are nominated could be removed under changes intended to restore trust in the processes of the Crown Nominations Commission (CNC)

12 Sep 2024

Bishops reiterate concerns in Lords debate on winter fuel payments

BISHOPS used a debate in the House of Lords on Wednesday to express their concerns about the loss of winter fuel payments for many pensioners, as peers considered a motion to annul the Government’s decision to apply a means test

12 Sep 2024

Bishop of Gloucester speaks up for Palestinians evicted by Israeli settlers

12 Sep 2024

‘Too few women bishops in the Lords’

12 Sep 2024

Self-supporting ministers to have first lead bishop

11 Sep 2024

Comment

Volunteers are no longer in it for the long haul

13 Sep 2024

Why the eclipse of Christianity matters

13 Sep 2024

Leader comment: Testing times begin for Starmer

13 Sep 2024

Features

Revolution in a coffee cup: 30 years of Fairtrade

13 Sep 2024

How to make your sermons come alive

13 Sep 2024

Interview with John Cottingham: Room for God in the Cartesian world-view

13 Sep 2024

BOOKS REVIEWED THIS WEEK

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Book review: Vulture Capitalism: Corporate crimes, backdoor bailouts and the death of freedom by Grace Blakeley
Peter Selby finds that economic manipulators are unguarded about Mammon’s methodology
Book review: Life After Doom: Wisdom and courage for a world falling apart by Brian McLaren
What if global problems can’t be fixed? Mike Starkey reads one view
Book review: Mortal Goods: Reimagining Christian political duty by Ephraim Radner
This book about politics is more about mortality, suggests John Inge
Book review: Prophet of Reason: Science, religion and the origins of the modern Middle East by Peter Hill
Michael Lewis reviews the life of a thinker who championed reason

Faith

17th Sunday after Trinity

13 Sep 2024

An inversion of hierarchy

13 Sep 2024

16th Sunday after Trinity

06 Sep 2024

Regulars

Diary: Mark Oakley

13 Sep 2024

100 years ago: The Mürren Conference

13 Sep 2024

Quotes of the week

13 Sep 2024

Gazette

Obituary: Dominic Gwynn

13 Sep 2024

Appointments

13 Sep 2024

Deaths

13 Sep 2024

Audio & Video

Podcast: John Cottingham in conversation with Andrew Brown

13 Sep 2024

Book Club Podcast: Sarah Tarlow on The Archaeology of Loss

06 Sep 2024

Podcast: Bishop Andrew Rumsey and David Watson on the value of church buildings

09 Aug 2024

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Awards Ceremony: 26 September 2024

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Inspiration: The Influences That Have Shaped My Life

September - November 2024

St Martin in the Fields Autumn Lecture Series 2024

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