<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Church Times</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk</link><atom:link rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/rss" /><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:28:02 +0100</pubDate><description>Church Times RSS Feed</description><language>en</language><item><title>Stipend rise may hit clergy posts</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/stipend-rise-may-hit-clergy-posts</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:28:02 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/stipend-rise-may-hit-clergy-posts</guid><category>News &gt; UK</category><journalist>Madeleine Davies</journalist><description><![CDATA[ IN THE wake of stipend increases, clergy posts are being examined by archdeacons in the diocese of Southwark. It is forecast that its deficit could grow to £3.7 million by 2030 without higher parish-share contributions or “significant cost reducti...]]></description></item><item><title>Joy for 93-year-old churchgoer confirmed in care home</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/joy-for-93-year-old-churchgoer-confirmed-in-care-home</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:27:59 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/joy-for-93-year-old-churchgoer-confirmed-in-care-home</guid><category>News &gt; UK</category><journalist>Pat Ashworth</journalist><description><![CDATA[ A 93-YEAR-OLD former RAF Flight Lieutenant, Dennis Minns, has described as “deeply meaningful” his confirmation during a service held in the care home in which he lives in the Oxfordshire town of Watlington.
Mr Minns has been a churchgoer for many...]]></description></item><item><title>Daily crime rate is ten-plus in places of worship, says lobby</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/daily-crime-rate-is-ten-plus-in-places-of-worship-says-lobby</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:27:56 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/daily-crime-rate-is-ten-plus-in-places-of-worship-says-lobby</guid><category>News &gt; UK</category><journalist>James Macintyre</journalist><description><![CDATA[ MORE than ten crimes a day are being committed at churches and other places of worship across the UK, new figures show.
In 2025, 3637 crimes were committed on church property and other religious premises, new figures obtained by Freedom of Informa...]]></description></item><item><title>Kew Gardens to host lectures and retreats on theology and gardening</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/kew-gardens-to-host-lectures-and-retreats-on-theology-and-gardening</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:27:50 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/kew-gardens-to-host-lectures-and-retreats-on-theology-and-gardening</guid><category>News &gt; UK</category><journalist>Abigail Frymann Rouch</journalist><description><![CDATA[ THE climate crisis is breaking down the old divide between scientists and people of faith, the Vicar of St Anne’s, Kew, in south-west London, Canon Giles Fraser, has said. He is leading an initiative to deepen the Church’s theological engagement w...]]></description></item><item><title>Dean of Rochester secures funding for horticultural therapist at cathedral</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/dean-of-rochester-secures-funding-for-horticultural-therapist-at-cathedral</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:27:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/dean-of-rochester-secures-funding-for-horticultural-therapist-at-cathedral</guid><category>News &gt; UK</category><journalist>Pat Ashworth</journalist><description><![CDATA[ A LOVE of roses and an ardent belief in the healing power of gardens links the present Dean of Rochester, the Very Revd Dr Philip Hesketh, with a Victorian predecessor, Samuel Reynolds Hole — a connection that has brought funding for a horticultur...]]></description></item><item><title>Truro choristers happy to be stranded on Isles of Scilly</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/truro-choristers-happy-to-be-stranded-on-isles-of-scilly</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:27:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/truro-choristers-happy-to-be-stranded-on-isles-of-scilly</guid><category>News &gt; UK</category><journalist>James Macintyre</journalist><description><![CDATA[ MEMBERS of Truro Cathedral’s choir were pleased to be stranded on the Isles of Scilly, where they were performing last week, after the boat that was due to return them to the mainland developed a fault.
James Anderson-Besant, the Master of the Cho...]]></description></item><item><title>UN roadmap sets out how to invest for climate</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/un-roadmap-sets-out-how-to-invest-for-climate</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:27:38 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/un-roadmap-sets-out-how-to-invest-for-climate</guid><category>News &gt; UK</category><journalist>Madeleine Davies</journalist><description><![CDATA[ PENSIONS funds and insurers in the UK should be investing more in climate transition in emerging markets and developing economies, a new report from the C of E Pensions Board suggests.
Even “modest shifts” in investment could unlock tens of billio...]]></description></item><item><title>Church Times Train-a-Priest fund open through Eastertide</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/church-times-train-a-priest-fund-open-through-eastertide</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:27:34 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/church-times-train-a-priest-fund-open-through-eastertide</guid><category>News &gt; UK</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ OUR Church Times Train-a-Priest (TAP) Fund remains open for donations through Eastertide. Our hope is that the availability of TAP grants will help to remove some of the barriers to participation for people from less financially secure situations....]]></description></item><item><title>Photo stories of the week</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/photo-stories-of-the-week</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:27:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/photo-stories-of-the-week</guid><category>News &gt; UK</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ ]]></description></item><item><title>UK news in brief</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/uk-news-in-brief</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:27:20 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/uk-news-in-brief</guid><category>News &gt; UK</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ ‘Tongue-in-cheek’ poet gets edited out of parish magazine
A POET has been dropped by a parish magazine after she offended local residents of Uplyme, on the Devon-Dorset border, for writing about migrants, benefits claimants, and people’s body weig...]]></description></item><item><title>India’s supply chains hit by Iran war</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/world/india-s-supply-chains-hit-by-iran-war</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:27:12 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/world/india-s-supply-chains-hit-by-iran-war</guid><category>News &gt; World</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ IN SEVERAL districts across Odisha, Jharkhand, and West Bengal, in eastern India, Christian street vendors are facing disruption to their livelihoods as the war involving the United States, Israel, and Iran begins to affect supplies of LPG (liquef...]]></description></item><item><title>Canadian priest awarded medal ‘For Sacrifice and Love for Ukraine’</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/world/canadian-priest-awarded-medal-for-sacrifice-and-love-for-ukraine</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:27:09 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/world/canadian-priest-awarded-medal-for-sacrifice-and-love-for-ukraine</guid><category>News &gt; World</category><journalist>Amelia Braddick</journalist><description><![CDATA[ A CANADIAN priest who has pastoral ties to Kyiv has been awarded a medal “For Sacrifice and Love for Ukraine”. He said the recognition is about “standing beside others in their suffering”.
The award was given by the Orthodox Church of Ukraine to t...]]></description></item><item><title>Texas judge refuses politics from pulpit</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/world/texas-judge-refuses-politics-from-pulpit</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:27:04 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/world/texas-judge-refuses-politics-from-pulpit</guid><category>News &gt; World</category><journalist>Rebecca Paveley</journalist><description><![CDATA[ A JUDGE in Texas has dismissed a proposed agreement that would have allowed churches in the United States to endorse political candidates without losing their tax-exempt status.
Judge Campbell Barker, of the US District Court for the Eastern Distr...]]></description></item><item><title>Church court in US agrees priest’s disciplinary hearing was a ‘sham’</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/world/church-court-in-us-agrees-priest-s-disciplinary-hearing-was-a-sham</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:26:59 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/world/church-court-in-us-agrees-priest-s-disciplinary-hearing-was-a-sham</guid><category>News &gt; World</category><journalist>Rebecca Paveley</journalist><description><![CDATA[ A CHURCH court in the United States has ruled that a diocese did not correctly follow Episcopal Church canons in a disciplinary hearing concerning a priest charged by police with theft, fraud, and credit-card abuse.
The diocese of Dallas is attemp...]]></description></item><item><title>World news in brief</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/world/world-news-in-brief</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:26:52 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/world/world-news-in-brief</guid><category>News &gt; World</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ Architects picked for new Sydney RC cathedral
A NEW cathedral in Sydney, forming part of a centre of Roman Catholic life, to encompass education and community services, will be designed by Níall McLaughlin Architects, winners of this year’s RIBA R...]]></description></item><item><title>English churches should fly the flag of St George</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/comment/opinion/english-churches-should-fly-the-flag-of-st-george</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:26:45 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/comment/opinion/english-churches-should-fly-the-flag-of-st-george</guid><category>Comment &gt; Opinion</category><journalist>Martyn Snow</journalist><description><![CDATA[ LAST summer, St George flags popped up everywhere — on zebra crossings, mini roundabouts, and lamp-posts (Comment, 3 October 2025). “Operation Raise the Colours” was ostensibly non-partisan and all about inspiring patriotism; but it was hard not t...]]></description></item><item><title>No nation can win a nuclear war</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/comment/opinion/no-nation-can-win-a-nuclear-war</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:26:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/comment/opinion/no-nation-can-win-a-nuclear-war</guid><category>Comment &gt; Opinion</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ THE war against Iran on which the United States and Israel have embarked has revived fears of nuclear conflict. The war has been partly justified by Washington and Israel as a way to stop Iran from getting the bomb, although there is no evidence t...]]></description></item><item><title>Analysis: More than merely a ‘vibe shift’?</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/comment/analysis/analysis-more-than-merely-a-vibe-shift</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:26:37 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/comment/analysis/analysis-more-than-merely-a-vibe-shift</guid><category>Comment &gt; Analysis</category><journalist>Chine McDonald</journalist><description><![CDATA[ IN MARCH 1966, John Lennon declared that The Beatles were “more popular than Jesus now”. Instead of claiming that the Fab Four were god-like, he was reflecting on a culture in which young people had turned away from the religion that had formed th...]]></description></item><item><title>Paul Vallely: Pope stands up to President Trump</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/comment/columnists/paul-vallely-pope-stands-up-to-president-trump</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:26:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/comment/columnists/paul-vallely-pope-stands-up-to-president-trump</guid><category>Comment &gt; Columnists</category><journalist>Paul Vallely</journalist><description><![CDATA[ IT IS tempting to dismiss President Trump’s recent outbursts against the Pope as just another eruption of rhetorical excess from a President who routinely disregards the boundaries of political discourse. But we should pause when a scholar as auth...]]></description></item><item><title>Angela Tilby: Clarity about ‘fornication’ is needed now</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/comment/columnists/angela-tilby-clarity-about-fornication-is-needed-now</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:26:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/comment/columnists/angela-tilby-clarity-about-fornication-is-needed-now</guid><category>Comment &gt; Columnists</category><journalist>Angela Tilby</journalist><description><![CDATA[ THE Church of England has recognised the wrong done to many unmarried mothers in the post-war years. In the moralising atmosphere of that time, they were made to carry a weight of guilt and shame. Sex outside marriage was taboo, and many young mot...]]></description></item><item><title>Viewpoint with Andrew Brown: God is on the side of cats — and humans, too</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/comment/columnists/viewpoint-with-andrew-brown-god-is-on-the-side-of-cats-and-humans-too</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:26:22 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/comment/columnists/viewpoint-with-andrew-brown-god-is-on-the-side-of-cats-and-humans-too</guid><category>Comment &gt; Columnists</category><journalist>Andrew Brown</journalist><description><![CDATA[ NOW that it seems the world has been rebooked from the Apocalypse Express on to the Apocalypse Replacement Bus Service, there is a moment in which to write about things of lasting value: cats and poetry.
The two come together in a book that I foun...]]></description></item><item><title>Malcolm Guite: Poet’s Corner</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/comment/columnists/malcolm-guite-poet-s-corner</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:26:17 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/comment/columnists/malcolm-guite-poet-s-corner</guid><category>Comment &gt; Columnists</category><journalist>Malcolm Guite</journalist><description><![CDATA[ I AM back to my nest in North Walsham, back to my abandoned routines, back to my daily prayer walks in Sadlers Wood. I miss all these things sorely when I am abroad in a maze of lecture days, meetings and greetings, and then the anonymous placeles...]]></description></item><item><title>Leader comment: Free the laity</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/comment/leader-comment/leader-comment-free-the-laity</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:26:12 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/comment/leader-comment/leader-comment-free-the-laity</guid><category>Comment &gt; Leader comment</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ THE season of annual parochial church meetings (APCMs) is a chance to draw attention to what this newspaper has described as “a remarkably dedicated lay army” (Features, 15 March 2024). As we reported, however, this “army” is dwindling. In Truro d...]]></description></item><item><title>Letters to the Editor</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/comment/letters-to-the-editor/letters-to-the-editor</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:26:08 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/comment/letters-to-the-editor/letters-to-the-editor</guid><category>Comment &gt; Letters to the editor</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ Ecumenism threatened by Nairobi-Cairo Proposals
From Canon Peter Sedgwick
Madam, — The criticisms of Nairobi Cairo Proposals (NCP) by the Revd Professor Paul Avis (Comment, 10 April) are very welcome His new book, Shaping A Church of Ethical Integ...]]></description></item><item><title>‘Each picture could be a personal pilgrimage’ — the solitary life of artist Gwen John</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/features/features/each-picture-could-be-a-personal-pilgrimage-the-solitary-life-of-artist-gwen-john</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:26:05 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/features/features/each-picture-could-be-a-personal-pilgrimage-the-solitary-life-of-artist-gwen-john</guid><category>Features &gt; Features</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ THE artist Gwen John’s images — from tiny watercolour studies of figures swiftly produced on the backs of food packets to monumental portraits of nuns — were tenderly attentive, materially innovative, and steadily meditative. Raised in Wales, she ...]]></description></item><item><title>The unexpected tenacity of local ecumenical partnerships</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/features/features/the-unexpected-tenacity-of-local-ecumenical-partnerships</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:26:02 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/features/features/the-unexpected-tenacity-of-local-ecumenical-partnerships</guid><category>Features &gt; Features</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ LOCAL ecumenical partnerships — single-congregation, structured partnerships in which people from different denominations worship, serve, and minister together as one — appear to be demonstrating resilience rather than decline.
LEPs, as they are k...]]></description></item><item><title>How medieval physicians cared for both the body and soul</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/features/features/how-medieval-physicians-cared-for-both-the-body-and-soul</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:25:59 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/features/features/how-medieval-physicians-cared-for-both-the-body-and-soul</guid><category>Features &gt; Features</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ ALTHOUGH it is often claimed that religion was the main force preventing the advancement of medical knowledge and the practice of proper medicine in the Middle Ages, the Church actually played an important part in educating the laity — and perhaps...]]></description></item><item><title>The Cloud of Unknowing: sitting comfortably with divine mystery</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/features/features/the-cloud-of-unknowing-sitting-comfortably-with-divine-mystery</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:25:52 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/features/features/the-cloud-of-unknowing-sitting-comfortably-with-divine-mystery</guid><category>Features &gt; Features</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ THE Cloud of Unknowing opens with a plea to its reader not to read it. The anonymous author of this 14th-century mystical handbook warns that it is intended only for those who have committed themselves fully to the highest point of the contemplati...]]></description></item><item><title>Faith: Understanding statistics after the withdrawal of ‘quiet revival’ claims</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/faith/faith-features/faith-understanding-statistics-after-the-withdrawal-of-quiet-revival-claims</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:25:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/faith/faith-features/faith-understanding-statistics-after-the-withdrawal-of-quiet-revival-claims</guid><category>Faith &gt; Faith features</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ FOR a brief period, recently, the phrase “quiet revival” entered public conversation with a certain tentative confidence. A report suggested that church attendance in Britain was rising, particularly among young adults. The claim was not extravaga...]]></description></item><item><title>Faith: Where do we find the power of healing?</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/faith/faith-features/faith-where-do-we-find-the-power-of-healing</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:25:43 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/faith/faith-features/faith-where-do-we-find-the-power-of-healing</guid><category>Faith &gt; Faith features</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ RECENTLY, I woke up with a mouth full of ulcers. Not one discreet little ulcer, hiding in the corner — oh no! A full committee meeting. Every syllable felt like sandpaper. Preaching with mouth ulcers is like attempting Handel’s Messiah while chewi...]]></description></item><item><title>Faith for Holy Places</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/faith/faith-for-holy-places/faith-for-holy-places</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:25:41 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/faith/faith-for-holy-places/faith-for-holy-places</guid><category>Faith &gt; Faith for Holy Places</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ NEAR Smerwick Harbour, on the north-western edge of the Dingle Peninsula, in Ireland, is the oratory of Gallarus. It appears dull and bleak in its isolated setting, but it is one of the best-preserved stone churches in Ireland, and is now on the c...]]></description></item><item><title>Book review: William Tyndale and the English Language by David Crystal</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-william-tyndale-and-the-english-language-by-david-crystal</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:25:35 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-william-tyndale-and-the-english-language-by-david-crystal</guid><category>Books &amp; Arts &gt; Book reviews</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ PARTIALITY alert: I revere David Crystal — as a scholar of the English language and as a communicator. He draws people into his delight in language, not by promoting stylistic one-up-personship puffed off as “grammar”, but with imagination and wis...]]></description></item><item><title>Book review: How England Began: From Roman Britain to the Anglo-Saxons by Nicholas J. Higham</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-how-england-began-from-roman-britain-to-the-anglo-saxons-by-nicholas-j-higham</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:25:31 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-how-england-began-from-roman-britain-to-the-anglo-saxons-by-nicholas-j-higham</guid><category>Books &amp; Arts &gt; Book reviews</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ WHY do the British speak English? Or, put differently, why don’t they speak a modern descendant of Latin or Brittonic, the two languages most commonly used at the end of Roman rule on the island?
The old “Germanist” scholarly tradition had no trou...]]></description></item><item><title>Book review: The Seven Rules of Trust: Why it is today’s most essential superpower by Jimmy Wales</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-the-seven-rules-of-trust-why-it-is-today-s-most-essential-superpower-by-jimmy-wales</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:25:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-the-seven-rules-of-trust-why-it-is-today-s-most-essential-superpower-by-jimmy-wales</guid><category>Books &amp; Arts &gt; Book reviews</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ JIMMY WALES is the co-founder of the non-profit free encyclopaedia Wikipedia. A few years prior, he had launched the platform Nupedia. This required contributors to prove that they were an expert before posting on it. After a year, it had only 21 ...]]></description></item><item><title>Book review: Irenaeus and the Glory of God: Gnosticism, recapitulation and true humanity in Christ by Patrick Whitworth</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-irenaeus-and-the-glory-of-god-gnosticism-recapitulation-and-true-humanity-in-christ-by-patrick-whitworth</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:25:24 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-irenaeus-and-the-glory-of-god-gnosticism-recapitulation-and-true-humanity-in-christ-by-patrick-whitworth</guid><category>Books &amp; Arts &gt; Book reviews</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ WE ARE familiar with the beginnings of Christian history through reading the epistles of Paul and the other apostles which show how the first churches were founded. But we are less familiar with the story of how the Church developed from those ear...]]></description></item><item><title>Book review: El Generalísimo Franco: Power, violence and the quest for greatness by Giles Tremlett</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-el-generalísimo-franco-power-violence-and-the-quest-for-greatness-by-giles-tremlett</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:25:21 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-el-generalísimo-franco-power-violence-and-the-quest-for-greatness-by-giles-tremlett</guid><category>Books &amp; Arts &gt; Book reviews</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ SPAIN’S descent into civil war between 1936 and 1939 had deeply rooted causes. Islamic colonisation and the subsequent Reconquista spawned two contrasting models of national identity: one firmly Roman Catholic and traditionalist, the other more co...]]></description></item><item><title>Book review: The First King of England: Æthelstan and the birth of a kingdom by David Woodman</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-the-first-king-of-england-æthelstan-and-the-birth-of-a-kingdom-by-david-woodman</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:25:19 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-the-first-king-of-england-æthelstan-and-the-birth-of-a-kingdom-by-david-woodman</guid><category>Books &amp; Arts &gt; Book reviews</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ IN 927, Æthelstan, king of the English, who had taken control of the Viking kingdom of York, met the princes of Wales, the king of Scots, and the ruler of English Northumbria, at Eamont Bridge in Cumbria. All recognised him as their overlord. This...]]></description></item><item><title>Book review: Another Christ: Rediscovering Jesus, Francis, and discipleship today by Andrew D. Mayes</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-another-christ-rediscovering-jesus-francis-and-discipleship-today-by-andrew-d-mayes</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:25:15 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-another-christ-rediscovering-jesus-francis-and-discipleship-today-by-andrew-d-mayes</guid><category>Books &amp; Arts &gt; Book reviews</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ ANDREW MAYES is worried that we have over-emphasised the more comforting images for Jesus (such as shepherd and servant), resulting in a faith that is tame and predictable, instead of risky, outrageous, and passionate.
Accordingly, he examines Jes...]]></description></item><item><title>Book review: Moses Maimonides: A very short introduction by Ross Brann</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-moses-maimonides-a-very-short-introduction-by-ross-brann</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:25:13 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-moses-maimonides-a-very-short-introduction-by-ross-brann</guid><category>Books &amp; Arts &gt; Book reviews</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ MOSES MAIMONIDES (1135-1204) was the outstanding Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. His status within Judaism is roughly equivalent to that of St Thomas Aquinas in Christianity, and his writings on philosophical theology proved influential on thin...]]></description></item><item><title>New books just published</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/books-arts/new-titles/new-books-just-published</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:25:08 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/books-arts/new-titles/new-books-just-published</guid><category>Books &amp; Arts &gt; New titles</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ Into Truth: The three conversions of Saint John Henry Newman by Giuseppe Pezzini (Our Sunday Visitor, £12.50 (£11.25); 978-1-63966-447-4)
“Conscience was the driving force of Saint John Henry Newman's journey towards the certainty of truth: ex umb...]]></description></item><item><title>Podcasts review</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/books-arts/podcast-reviews/podcasts-review</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:25:05 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/books-arts/podcast-reviews/podcasts-review</guid><category>Books &amp; Arts &gt; Podcast reviews</category><journalist>Azariah France-Williams</journalist><description><![CDATA[ LAST week, I set my alarm for 12.45 a.m. to watch the re-entry into the atmosphere, and splashdown, of the crew of Integrity (Comment, 10 April). The podcast 13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II (World Service) provides expert commentary from pre-launc...]]></description></item><item><title>Music review: Tamerlano by G. F. Handel (London Handel Festival)</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/books-arts/music/music-review-tamerlano-by-g-f-handel-london-handel-festival</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:25:01 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/books-arts/music/music-review-tamerlano-by-g-f-handel-london-handel-festival</guid><category>Books &amp; Arts &gt; Music</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ TAMERLANO is one of Handel&rsquo;s darkest and most psychologically complex operas, posing questions about the abuse of power and whether suicide is ever right. It is also a powerful exploration of the bond between father and daughter.
First stage...]]></description></item><item><title>Music review: Love Beyond by Richard Haley and Tabitha Webb</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/books-arts/music/music-review-love-beyond-by-richard-haley-and-tabitha-webb</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:24:57 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/books-arts/music/music-review-love-beyond-by-richard-haley-and-tabitha-webb</guid><category>Books &amp; Arts &gt; Music</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ IT IS brave of any artist to tackle the broad sweep of the Bible. Other musical-theatre writers have taken sections, but the ambition of Richard Haley and Tabitha Webb in Love Beyond is to start at the very beginning.
The Cadogan Hall was packed f...]]></description></item><item><title>Theatre review: Shadowlands by William Nicholson (Aldwych Theatre, London)</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/books-arts/performing-arts/theatre-review-shadowlands-by-william-nicholson-aldwych-theatre-london</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:24:54 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/books-arts/performing-arts/theatre-review-shadowlands-by-william-nicholson-aldwych-theatre-london</guid><category>Books &amp; Arts &gt; Performing Arts</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ DESPITE the eclipse of his death in 1963 by the assassination of President Kennedy on the same day, the reputation of C. S. Lewis has continued to grow, both here and in the United States. His Narnia Chronicles and his religious writings remain po...]]></description></item><item><title>Derek the Cleric</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/regulars/cartoons/derek-the-cleric</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:24:49 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/regulars/cartoons/derek-the-cleric</guid><category>Regulars &gt; Cartoons</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ Church humour from the cartoonist Andy Robb]]></description></item><item><title>Crossword No. 1768</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/regulars/crossword/crossword-no-1768</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:24:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/regulars/crossword/crossword-no-1768</guid><category>Regulars &gt; Crossword</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ Across
 1  Bargemen losing ram travelling in desert (5)
 4  Arrangement of schematic set of questions (9)
 9  Little fine weather for festival (7)
 10  Unreliable bloke harbouring deserter (7)
 11  Church member with diverse scope and talent (11)
...]]></description></item><item><title>Notebook: Rachel Mann</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/regulars/notebook/notebook-rachel-mann</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:24:43 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/regulars/notebook/notebook-rachel-mann</guid><category>Regulars &gt; Notebook</category><journalist>Rachel Mann</journalist><description><![CDATA[ Breaking the bounds
ATTENDANCE at a senior colleague’s office retirement “do” brought these lines from William Cowper to mind: “From all his wearisome engagements freed, Shakes hands with bus’ness, and retires indeed.”
My colleague’s tenure has be...]]></description></item><item><title>100 years ago: Portman Square eccentricity</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/regulars/100-years-ago/100-years-ago-portman-square-eccentricity</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:24:41 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/regulars/100-years-ago/100-years-ago-portman-square-eccentricity</guid><category>Regulars &gt; 100 years ago</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ THE Morning Post correspondent went to St. Paul’s, Portman-square, on Easter evening, and he has a remarkable story to tell of what he saw and heard. The well-known Evangelical vicar, Dr. Stuart Holden, entirely ignored the Prayer Book. The servic...]]></description></item><item><title>Quotes of the week</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/regulars/quotes/quotes-of-the-week</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:24:37 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/regulars/quotes/quotes-of-the-week</guid><category>Regulars &gt; Quotes</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ It [Christian nationalism] is not Christianity. You’re taking some very conventional, somewhat obnoxious, beliefs and cloaking them in Christ. And if one was to study Christ’s teachings . . . it would make you more compassionate and more open, lik...]]></description></item><item><title>Appointments</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/gazette/appointments/appointments</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:24:34 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/gazette/appointments/appointments</guid><category>Gazette &gt; Appointments</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ New archdeacon
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THE new Archdeacon of Buckingham, in the diocese of Oxford, is the Ven. Cassandra Messervy. The chair of the English Clergy Association and formerly Rector of the Wychert Vale Benefice, Archdeacon Messervy was ordained in Oxf...]]></description></item><item><title>Resignations and retirements</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/gazette/resignations/resignations-and-retirements</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:24:31 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/gazette/resignations/resignations-and-retirements</guid><category>Gazette &gt; Resignations</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ ALDRED. The Revd Patrick Aldred, Multifaith Chaplain of Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (Lichfield).
ALLEN. The Revd Joanna Allen, Team Vicar in the Dorchester Team Ministry (Oxford). 
CLAYTON. The Revd Adam Clayton, Rector of Myddle and...]]></description></item><item><title>Deaths</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/gazette/deaths/deaths</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:24:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/gazette/deaths/deaths</guid><category>Gazette &gt; Deaths</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ ASHWORTH. &mdash; On 10 April, the Revd John Russell Ashworth: Vicar of Clipstone (1967-70); Bolton-upon-Dearne (1970-82); Thornhill Lees (1982-98); subsequently received into the Roman Catholic Church; aged 93.
ATKINS. &mdash; On 17 March, the Re...]]></description></item><item><title>I stand with the Pope in call for peace, says Archbishop of Canterbury</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/i-stand-with-the-pope-in-call-for-peace-says-archbishop-of-canterbury</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:30:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/i-stand-with-the-pope-in-call-for-peace-says-archbishop-of-canterbury</guid><category>News &gt; UK</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ THE Archbishop of Canterbury has issued a statement in solidarity with the Pope, whose repeated calls for peace in the Middle East and elsewhere have been criticisied by President Trump.
“I urge Anglicans across the Church of England and the Angli...]]></description></item><item><title>Appeal judges quash murder conviction of former churchwarden and order a retrial</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/appeal-judges-quash-murder-conviction-of-former-churchwarden-and-order-a-retrial</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:54:34 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/appeal-judges-quash-murder-conviction-of-former-churchwarden-and-order-a-retrial</guid><category>News &gt; UK</category><journalist>James Macintyre</journalist><description><![CDATA[ A FORMER deputy churchwarden, Benjamin Field, who was sentenced in 2019 to life for the murder of a teacher and fellow churchgoer, had his conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal on Thursday.
The son of a Baptist minister, Mr Field was imprisone...]]></description></item><item><title>No longer on trial, same-sex blessings to be part of Welsh Prayer Book, Church in Wales decides</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/no-longer-on-trial-same-sex-blessings-to-be-part-of-welsh-prayer-book-church-in-wales-decides</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:44:20 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/no-longer-on-trial-same-sex-blessings-to-be-part-of-welsh-prayer-book-church-in-wales-decides</guid><category>News &gt; UK</category><journalist>Pat Ashworth</journalist><description><![CDATA[ THE Governing Body of the Church in Wales has voted overwhelmingly to make its liturgy for the blessing of same-sex marriages and civil partnerships, trialled for the past five years, permanent, by incorporating it into the Welsh Book of Common Pr...]]></description></item><item><title>Free Churches warn over right to protest as Crime and Policing Bill reaches final stages</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/free-churches-warn-over-right-to-protest-as-crime-and-policing-bill-reaches-final-stages</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:06:52 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/free-churches-warn-over-right-to-protest-as-crime-and-policing-bill-reaches-final-stages</guid><category>News &gt; UK</category><journalist>Madeleine Davies</journalist><description><![CDATA[ THE leaders of Free Churches in the UK have raised the alarm about the Government’s move to require the police to consider previous and planned protests in the same area when deciding whether to impose conditions on a demonstration.
The Crime and ...]]></description></item><item><title>School assembly songs go ‘pop’ to inspire youth worship</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/school-assembly-songs-go-pop-to-inspire-youth-worship</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:23:09 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/school-assembly-songs-go-pop-to-inspire-youth-worship</guid><category>News &gt; UK</category><journalist>Amelia Braddick</journalist><description><![CDATA[ A NEW programme that uses popular school-assembly songs to inspire worshipping communities seeks to “double the number of children and young people as active disciples by 2030”.
iSingPOP is the singing, performing, and resourcing project of the ch...]]></description></item><item><title>Wiltshire Police confirm investigation into fraud allegations brought by Church of England</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/wiltshire-police-confirm-investigation-into-fraud-allegations-brought-by-church-of-england</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:31:52 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/wiltshire-police-confirm-investigation-into-fraud-allegations-brought-by-church-of-england</guid><category>News &gt; UK</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ WILTSHIRE POLICE “have been contacted by the Church of England regarding allegations of fraud” and an investigation is ongoing, the force confirmed this week.
The statement came a week after the Church Times revealed that the Bishop of Salisbury, ...]]></description></item><item><title>Archbishop of Wales speaks of fear and mistrust within the Church</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/archbishop-of-wales-speaks-of-fear-and-mistrust-within-the-church</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:18:03 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/archbishop-of-wales-speaks-of-fear-and-mistrust-within-the-church</guid><category>News &gt; UK</category><journalist>Pat Ashworth</journalist><description><![CDATA[ THE Church is no different from any other charity or branch of social services unless social action and the Easter message are held together, the Archbishop of Wales, the Most Revd Cherry Vann, told the Governing Body of the Church in Wales, meeti...]]></description></item><item><title>I will go on saying what must be said, Pope responds to berating by Trump</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/world/i-will-go-on-saying-what-must-be-said-pope-responds-to-berating-by-trump</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:59:18 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/world/i-will-go-on-saying-what-must-be-said-pope-responds-to-berating-by-trump</guid><category>News &gt; World</category><journalist>Jonathan Luxmoore</journalist><description><![CDATA[ THE Pope has defended himself against angry remarks by President Trump, after the US President claimed that the American Pontiff owed his election to him.
“I have no fear of the Trump Administration or speaking out loudly the message of the Gospel...]]></description></item><item><title>Young violinist reflects on his Pilgrimage of hope</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/young-violinist-reflects-on-his-pilgrimage-of-hope</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:52:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/young-violinist-reflects-on-his-pilgrimage-of-hope</guid><category>News &gt; UK</category><journalist>James Macintyre</journalist><description><![CDATA[ ANTHONY KNIGHT, who turned 20 on Monday and is in his second year at the Royal College of Music (RCM), remembers the moment when he dreamed up the idea now called the “Pilgrimage of Hope”, during which he has toured hundreds of churches across the...]]></description></item><item><title>Artemis II astronaut expresses gratitude to God after successful mission</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/world/artemis-ii-astronaut-expresses-gratitude-to-god-after-successful-mission</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:43:12 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/world/artemis-ii-astronaut-expresses-gratitude-to-god-after-successful-mission</guid><category>News &gt; World</category><journalist>Rebecca Paveley</journalist><description><![CDATA[ ONE of the astronauts on the Artemis II space mission, Victor Glover, thanked God after the crew touched down safely on Friday.
Mr Glover was speaking in Houston, Texas, at the weekend, after the four-person crew returned safely from their journey...]]></description></item><item><title>Rising numbers read the Bible on apps, says developer</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/rising-numbers-read-the-bible-on-apps-says-developer</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:33:18 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/uk/rising-numbers-read-the-bible-on-apps-says-developer</guid><category>News &gt; UK</category><journalist>Madeleine Davies</journalist><description><![CDATA[ GROWTH in access to the Bible through apps is being reported by YouVersion, the company whose free apps have been downloaded on more than one billion devices worldwide.
It reported last week that an average of 18.7 million people had accessed one ...]]></description></item><item><title>TV review: Pilgrimage: The road to Holy Island and Harry Clark Goes to Rome</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/books-arts/tv/tv-review-pilgrimage-the-road-to-holy-island-and-harry-clark-goes-to-rome</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:47:04 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/books-arts/tv/tv-review-pilgrimage-the-road-to-holy-island-and-harry-clark-goes-to-rome</guid><category>Books &amp; Arts &gt; TV</category><journalist>Jayne Manfredi</journalist><description><![CDATA[ PILGRIMAGE: The road to Holy Island (BBC2, Easter Day) returns for another outing, uniting celebrities from diverse theological backgrounds for a journey following in the footsteps of ancient spiritual travellers. This pilgrimage takes place on th...]]></description></item><item><title>Radio review: A Broken Order, Life Changing, and BBC Inside Science</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/books-arts/radio/radio-review-a-broken-order-life-changing-and-bbc-inside-science</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:42:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/books-arts/radio/radio-review-a-broken-order-life-changing-and-bbc-inside-science</guid><category>Books &amp; Arts &gt; Radio</category><journalist>Gerry Lynch</journalist><description><![CDATA[ A BROKEN ORDER, on Drama on 4 (Radio 4, Saturday), was a lightly fictionalised true story of some Poor Clares, in Bruges, in the late 1980s. Their declining community, with a convent in a fabulous location, was introduced by the bishop to a new ca...]]></description></item><item><title>3rd Sunday of Easter</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/faith/sunday-s-readings/3rd-sunday-of-easter</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:40:22 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/faith/sunday-s-readings/3rd-sunday-of-easter</guid><category>Faith &gt; Sunday’s readings</category><journalist>Cally Hammond</journalist><description><![CDATA[ Acts 2.14a,36-41; Psalm 116.1-3,10-17; 1 Peter 1.17-23; Luke 24.13-35
THE most important theological question that Christians can ask about their faith is: “Is it true?” The most important historical question that Christians can ask about their fa...]]></description></item><item><title>Podcast: Exclusive interview with the Archbishop of Canterbury</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/audio-video/podcast/podcast-exclusive-interview-with-the-archbishop-of-canterbury</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:56:51 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/audio-video/podcast/podcast-exclusive-interview-with-the-archbishop-of-canterbury</guid><category>Audio &amp; Video &gt; Podcast</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ On the podcast this week, the Archbishop of Canterbury speaks to the editor of the Church Times, Sarah Meyrick. It is the Archbishop’s first interview since her enthronement last month.
Archbishop Mullally is asked about her hopes for her time in ...]]></description></item><item><title>Israel’s lightning raids on Lebanese population widely condemned</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/world/israel-s-lightning-raids-on-lebanese-population-widely-condemned</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:43:09 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/17-april/news/world/israel-s-lightning-raids-on-lebanese-population-widely-condemned</guid><category>News &gt; World</category><journalist>James Macintyre</journalist><description><![CDATA[ CHRISTIAN agencies, the United Nations, and the papal nuncio to Lebanon have condemned the Israeli attacks on the country, which were carried out, killing hundreds, despite the ceasefire between the United States and Iran brokered on Tuesday.
The ...]]></description></item><item><title>Brighter dawn for bunnies, thanks to vicar</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/news/uk/brighter-dawn-for-bunnies-thanks-to-vicar</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:11:31 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/news/uk/brighter-dawn-for-bunnies-thanks-to-vicar</guid><category>News &gt; UK</category><journalist>Amelia Braddick</journalist><description><![CDATA[ A VICAR who fosters rabbits for a national pet charity has urged people to consider providing temporary homes for animals.
The Revd Liz Houghton, a Vicar in the Newport Ministry Area, has been fostering rabbits and guinea pigs for the Blue Cross f...]]></description></item><item><title>Makgoba honoured in bronze</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/news/world/makgoba-honoured-in-bronze</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:11:23 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/news/world/makgoba-honoured-in-bronze</guid><category>News &gt; World</category><journalist>Amelia Braddick</journalist><description><![CDATA[ A SCULPTOR who is making a bronze bust of the Archbishop of Cape Town, Dr Thabo Makgoba, listens while he works to online recordings of his subject’s church services, to refresh his sense of the Archbishop’s character and manner.
The work by Luke ...]]></description></item><item><title>Show recalls painter-priest down the pit</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/news/uk/show-recalls-painter-priest-down-the-pit</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:11:18 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/news/uk/show-recalls-painter-priest-down-the-pit</guid><category>News &gt; UK</category><journalist>Pat Ashworth</journalist><description><![CDATA[ ARTWORK and mining memorabilia related to a clergyman born in 1926, who was called up as a “Bevin Boy” to work in a coalmine at the age of 18 and was later involved in industrial mission, are on show at Cusworth Hall Museum, in Doncaster.
David La...]]></description></item><item><title>Religious-freedom declaration issued after parliamentary conference</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/news/uk/religious-freedom-declaration-issued-after-parliamentary-conference</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:11:14 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/news/uk/religious-freedom-declaration-issued-after-parliamentary-conference</guid><category>News &gt; UK</category><journalist>Amelia Braddick</journalist><description><![CDATA[ A DECLARATION aimed at preventing “the political exploitation of religion where it leads to discrimination” was issued last month after a conference in the House of Commons.
The conference, convened on 26 March by the campaign Ban the Political Us...]]></description></item><item><title>Make an Easter offering to the Church Times Train-A-Priest (TAP) Fund</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/news/uk/make-an-easter-offering-to-the-church-times-train-a-priest-tap-fund</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:11:07 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/news/uk/make-an-easter-offering-to-the-church-times-train-a-priest-tap-fund</guid><category>News &gt; UK</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ EASTER is here, and our Church Times Train-A-Priest (TAP) Fund remains open for donations. For the past 73 years, our readers have been giving generously — to the tune of more than £4.7 million — to help to relieve ordinands of financial worries.
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THE Bishop of Meath &amp; Kildare, the Most Revd Patricia Storey, is to retire on 31 July next year. Announcing her decision at a meeting of the diocesan council on 18 March, she described her ministry as “an...]]></description></item><item><title>Six weeks of conflict have left people traumatised, says Bishop in Cyprus &amp; the Gulf</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/news/world/six-weeks-of-conflict-have-left-people-traumatised-says-bishop-in-cyprus-the-gulf</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:10:52 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/news/world/six-weeks-of-conflict-have-left-people-traumatised-says-bishop-in-cyprus-the-gulf</guid><category>News &gt; World</category><journalist>James Macintyre</journalist><description><![CDATA[ THE Bishop in Cyprus &amp; the Gulf, the Rt Revd Sean Semple, has said that six weeks of conflict have “left people deeply traumatised”, and that uninterrupted sleep is “a remembered luxury”, after recent visits to the eight countries in his dioce...]]></description></item><item><title>Hungarians prepare for crucial election</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/news/world/hungarians-prepare-for-crucial-election</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:10:37 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/news/world/hungarians-prepare-for-crucial-election</guid><category>News &gt; World</category><journalist>Jonathan Luxmoore</journalist><description><![CDATA[ CHURCH leaders in Hungary have appealed for calm before Sunday’s bitterly fought election, in which Viktor Orbán’s national-conservative Fidesz Party faces the likelihood of defeat after 16 years in power (Comment, 20 March).
“We are looking to th...]]></description></item><item><title>Primate of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church voices pollution fears</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/news/world/primate-of-ukrainian-greek-catholic-church-voices-pollution-fears</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:10:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/news/world/primate-of-ukrainian-greek-catholic-church-voices-pollution-fears</guid><category>News &gt; World</category><journalist>Jonathan Luxmoore</journalist><description><![CDATA[ THE Primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, has warned that his country’s ecosystem is being destroyed by Russian air strikes. It could also take decades to clear it of mines, even after Moscow’s invas...]]></description></item><item><title>Free our people, urges ‘victim’ diocese Haiti</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/news/world/free-our-people-urges-victim-diocese-haiti</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:10:17 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/news/world/free-our-people-urges-victim-diocese-haiti</guid><category>News &gt; World</category><journalist>Rebecca Paveley</journalist><description><![CDATA[ AFTER years of chaos in the diocese of Haiti, including arrests of senior clergy and lay people in connection with alleged arms-dealing, the diocese has broken its silence to call for a full investigation and the release of churchpeople from custo...]]></description></item><item><title>Photo story: View from afar</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/news/world/photo-story-view-from-afar</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:10:07 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/news/world/photo-story-view-from-afar</guid><category>News &gt; World</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ A woman walks past a mural in Tehran depicting Iranian astronauts in space]]></description></item><item><title>World news in brief</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/news/world/world-news-in-brief</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:09:59 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/news/world/world-news-in-brief</guid><category>News &gt; World</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ Spain and RC Church to manage abuse redress
THE Roman Catholic Church and the government in Spain have taken a further step towards compensating victims of sexual abuse by clerics who have died or cannot be prosecuted because the offences are alle...]]></description></item><item><title>What future for the Anglican Communion?</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/comment/opinion/what-future-for-the-anglican-communion</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:09:50 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/comment/opinion/what-future-for-the-anglican-communion</guid><category>Comment &gt; Opinion</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ THE 2024 report Nairobi-Cairo Proposals (NCPs), from the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order (IASCUFO), would, if implemented, have seismic consequences for the Anglican Communion. Some emphases of the NCPs are welcome: th...]]></description></item><item><title>Safeguarding needs theology</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/comment/opinion/safeguarding-needs-theology</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:09:43 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/comment/opinion/safeguarding-needs-theology</guid><category>Comment &gt; Opinion</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ THE position of the Church of England’s lead safeguarding bishop is not something that I have sought lightly. While much has been done to strengthen safeguarding in our Church, these remain deeply challenging times, as we confront the reality of o...]]></description></item><item><title>Analysis: Tackling poverty in a new landscape</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/comment/analysis/analysis-tackling-poverty-in-a-new-landscape</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:09:35 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/comment/analysis/analysis-tackling-poverty-in-a-new-landscape</guid><category>Comment &gt; Analysis</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ CHURCHES across the UK are engaged far more visibly in responding to poverty than they were two decades ago. Foodbanks, debt-advice centres, warm spaces, and community caf&eacute;s are now common in church life. Congregations play a far more visib...]]></description></item><item><title>Paul Vallely: Astronauts transcend earthly limits</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/comment/columnists/paul-vallely-astronauts-transcend-earthly-limits</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:09:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/comment/columnists/paul-vallely-astronauts-transcend-earthly-limits</guid><category>Comment &gt; Columnists</category><journalist>Paul Vallely</journalist><description><![CDATA[ IN LONG-LOST days, when Presidents of the United States spoke of God with reverence and sincerity, Ronald Reagan paid tribute to the crew of a space voyage by recalling how they had waved goodbye and “slipped the surly bonds of earth” to “touch th...]]></description></item><item><title>Angela Tilby: The universe resounds to resurrection</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/comment/columnists/angela-tilby-the-universe-resounds-to-resurrection</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:09:25 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/comment/columnists/angela-tilby-the-universe-resounds-to-resurrection</guid><category>Comment &gt; Columnists</category><journalist>Angela Tilby</journalist><description><![CDATA[ CHRISTIANS believe for a multitude of different reasons. For some, it is a habit, (and nothing wrong with that); for others, it rests on an overwhelming experience; for others, it is intellectual conviction. For me, the core of the matter is a sen...]]></description></item><item><title>Viewpoint with Andrew Brown: ‘Social permission’ does not equate to a revival</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/comment/columnists/viewpoint-with-andrew-brown-social-permission-does-not-equate-to-a-revival</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:09:18 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/comment/columnists/viewpoint-with-andrew-brown-social-permission-does-not-equate-to-a-revival</guid><category>Comment &gt; Columnists</category><journalist>Andrew Brown</journalist><description><![CDATA[ ONE of the consequences of the collapse of the American Empire is that there will no longer be any war crimes. Atrocities, oh yes: atrocities on a scale that we may find unimaginable; but none of them will be crimes, because crimes require judges ...]]></description></item><item><title>Charles Moseley: Easter brings green thoughts</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/comment/columnists/charles-moseley-easter-brings-green-thoughts</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:09:11 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/comment/columnists/charles-moseley-easter-brings-green-thoughts</guid><category>Comment &gt; Columnists</category><journalist>Charles Moseley</journalist><description><![CDATA[ ROGER CRAB (1621-80), who had been for a time one of Cromwell’s soldiers, was celebrated in his lifetime for giving his entire — substantial — estate to the poor; for living on three farthings a week; and for his teetotal, vegetarian life as a her...]]></description></item><item><title>Leader comment: Flicker of hope</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/comment/leader-comment/leader-comment-flicker-of-hope</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:09:04 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/comment/leader-comment/leader-comment-flicker-of-hope</guid><category>Comment &gt; Leader comment</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ AT A time when the news from the Middle East is almost universally terrible, a glimmer of hope comes in the news that the Parents Circle-Families Forum (PCFF) has been nominated for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. For the past three decades, the PCFF ...]]></description></item><item><title>Letters to the Editor</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/comment/letters-to-the-editor/letters-to-the-editor</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:08:59 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/comment/letters-to-the-editor/letters-to-the-editor</guid><category>Comment &gt; Letters to the editor</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ Christians, take encouragement from Artemis II
From Mr Samuel McKee
Madam, — NASA’s Artemis II mission has been a beautiful moment of unity, with shades of optimism and excitement about the future which have not been seen for a while. I have great...]]></description></item><item><title>Breaking the pain barrier</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/faith/faith-features/breaking-the-pain-barrier</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:08:54 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/faith/faith-features/breaking-the-pain-barrier</guid><category>Faith &gt; Faith features</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ I WAS sitting in my car outside the hospital when the screaming started. It came without warning — raw, animal, uncontrollable. I screamed until my throat burned and my chest ached: until there was nothing left but silence and shock. People walked...]]></description></item><item><title>Tale of C. S. Lewis’s Vanishing Cabinet</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/faith/faith-features/tale-of-c-s-lewis-s-vanishing-cabinet</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:08:50 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/faith/faith-features/tale-of-c-s-lewis-s-vanishing-cabinet</guid><category>Faith &gt; Faith features</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ WHEATON COLLEGE, Illinois, was founded in 1860 out on the Midwestern prairies. Its first president, Jonathan Blanchard, was a Congregational minister and a fiery abolitionist. Blanchard insisted from the very beginning that the college would be op...]]></description></item><item><title>Holy Places: Paul Handley</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/faith/faith-for-holy-places/holy-places-paul-handley</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:08:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/faith/faith-for-holy-places/holy-places-paul-handley</guid><category>Faith &gt; Faith for Holy Places</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ LAVATORIES, parking, heating, comfortable seats if possible, maybe some carpet. PCCs around the country are under pressure to attract new worshippers who would never think of going anywhere without such amenities. It is paradoxical, therefore, tha...]]></description></item><item><title>Book review: The Pattern of God: David Jenkins’ theology in Church and public square by Richard Truss</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-the-pattern-of-god-david-jenkins-theology-in-church-and-public-square-by-richard-truss</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:08:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-the-pattern-of-god-david-jenkins-theology-in-church-and-public-square-by-richard-truss</guid><category>Books &amp; Arts &gt; Book reviews</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ THE General Synod gathered on a sweltering Sunday afternoon in York. David Jenkins, Bishop of Durham, rose to deliver an impassioned response to widespread criticism of his recent widely broadcast observations on certain doctrinal issues — especia...]]></description></item><item><title>Book review: Archbishop Sarah Mullally: A biography by Andrew Atherstone</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-archbishop-sarah-mullally-a-biography-by-andrew-atherstone</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:08:38 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-archbishop-sarah-mullally-a-biography-by-andrew-atherstone</guid><category>Books &amp; Arts &gt; Book reviews</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ THE announcement of Bishop Sarah Mullally as the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury aroused inevitable public curiosity about the background and character of the first woman in the 1400-year history of the Church of England appointed to this key offic...]]></description></item><item><title>Book review: Shaping a Church of Ethical Integrity: Groundwork for a Church rebuilt by Paul Avis</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-shaping-a-church-of-ethical-integrity-groundwork-for-a-church-rebuilt-by-paul-avis</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:08:32 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-shaping-a-church-of-ethical-integrity-groundwork-for-a-church-rebuilt-by-paul-avis</guid><category>Books &amp; Arts &gt; Book reviews</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ MANY Church Times readers will know that Dr Paul Avis is a scholarly priest who has written extensively and reliably about Anglicanism while also serving as a rural parish incumbent in the diocese of Exeter. Thirty-one of his works are listed in t...]]></description></item><item><title>Book review: Becoming Prayer: A Franciscan guide by Simon Cocksedge and Nicholas Alan Worssam</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-becoming-prayer-a-franciscan-guide-by-simon-cocksedge-and-nicholas-alan-worssam</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:08:28 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-becoming-prayer-a-franciscan-guide-by-simon-cocksedge-and-nicholas-alan-worssam</guid><category>Books &amp; Arts &gt; Book reviews</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ THE disciples of Jesus asked him, “Lord, teach us to pray,” and that same request has been put to spiritual leaders and teachers ever since. Their guidance has often been very simple. When some Brothers asked St Francis to teach them to pray, he t...]]></description></item><item><title>Book review: The Doctrine of Good Works: Reclaiming a neglected Protestant teaching by Thomas H. McCall, Caleb T. Friedeman and Matt Friedeman</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-the-doctrine-of-good-works-reclaiming-a-neglected-protestant-teaching-by-thomas-h-mccall-caleb-t-friedeman-and-matt-friedeman</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:08:23 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-the-doctrine-of-good-works-reclaiming-a-neglected-protestant-teaching-by-thomas-h-mccall-caleb-t-friedeman-and-matt-friedeman</guid><category>Books &amp; Arts &gt; Book reviews</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ “BY GRACE you have been saved through faith . . . not by works. . . For we are . . . created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life” (Ephesians 2.8-10). The provocation for this marvellous book is the s...]]></description></item><item><title>Notice board: God’s Book: An honest look at the Bible’s seven toughest topics by Andrew Ollerton</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/books-arts/book-reviews/notice-board-god-s-book-an-honest-look-at-the-bible-s-seven-toughest-topics-by-andrew-ollerton</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:08:18 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/books-arts/book-reviews/notice-board-god-s-book-an-honest-look-at-the-bible-s-seven-toughest-topics-by-andrew-ollerton</guid><category>Books &amp; Arts &gt; Book reviews</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ ANDREW OLLERTON’s God’s Book: An honest look at the Bible’s seven toughest topics looks at cre­ation (science), exodus (strange laws and customs), conquest (warfare and violence), exile (suffering) Gospels (miracles and exorcisms), Letters (sex), ...]]></description></item><item><title>New books just published</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/books-arts/new-titles/new-books-just-published</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:08:14 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/books-arts/new-titles/new-books-just-published</guid><category>Books &amp; Arts &gt; New titles</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ Belonging without Barriers: Building accessible Christian community by Triona Brading, Lois Bunyan, and Claire Wood (BRF, £14.99 (£13.49); 978-1-80039-420-9)
“Brading, Bunyan, and Wood begin by exploring the theological basis for this vision, aimi...]]></description></item><item><title>Art review: The English Print Revolution: Caxton and Beyond: 550 Years of the Printing Press (Senate House Library, London)</title><link>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/books-arts/art/art-review-the-english-print-revolution-caxton-and-beyond-550-years-of-the-printing-press-senate-house-library-london</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:08:10 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/10-april/books-arts/art/art-review-the-english-print-revolution-caxton-and-beyond-550-years-of-the-printing-press-senate-house-library-london</guid><category>Books &amp; Arts &gt; Art</category><journalist></journalist><description><![CDATA[ BY SINGULAR good fortune, I was in Antwerp the day before this little exhibition opened in the University of London. There, the Frenchman Christopher Plantin (1514-89), a member of the city Guild of St Luke from 1550, had established a printing pr...]]></description></item></channel></rss>