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Church of England Statistics for Mission show slow growth

DESPITE polling heralded as revealing a “quiet revival”, the Church of England is — by almost every measure and in almost every diocese — smaller than it was in 2018, this year’s

28 Oct 2025

Leader comment: Free spirits: liturgical anarchy?

‘It is clear that some are unaware of the canonical limits to the extempore’

17 Oct 2025

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17 Oct 2025

New congregations’ liturgical experimentation is a problem, says director of church-planting centre

14 Oct 2025

Church Army to shut down its Research Unit

27 Jun 2025

Book review: Ignite: How to share faith, build community and do church, differently by Debbie Ellisdon and Patrick Ellisdon

06 Jun 2025

Strategic mission funding ‘means more worshippers’ for Church of England

16 May 2025

Boscombe parish gets £400k for youth in Winchester growth bid

17 Apr 2025

Diocese of Carlisle to create 90 ‘new Christian communities’ across Cumbria

14 Mar 2025

Church Army may shed staff and sell HQ in retrenchment strategy

05 Mar 2025

Church growth in the North hampered by supply, not demand, researchers find

15 Jan 2025

Leading your Church Into Growth: ‘Move from presence to proclamation’

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Ripon College Cuddesdon, working with the Diocese of Chelmsford, seeks a Director for its new Cuddesdon Chelmsford Centre delivering non-residential formation for ordinands and lay ministers.

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‘Waiting is fundamental to the Christian faith’ — Bishop Wilcox on the long Advent after his 2017 cancer diagnosis

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