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Nov 18, 2024 · Commentary on this Sunday. Your chance to join the Diocese of Chelmsford Programme Management Office as Programme Manager, working within a mission focused team to develop and shape coherent programmes of change ‘to enliven disciples to make disciples’ in the Bradwell episcopal area.
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5 days ago · Married couple receive their theology doctorates. A MARRIED couple who received their doctorates in theology and practice together, at a University of Winchester graduation ceremony last month, and who share leadership of Abbey Baptist Church in Reading, have credited their academic research with helping to build their congregation, and their ministry with illuminating their research
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Married couple receive their theology doctorates. A MARRIED couple who received their doctorates in theology and practice together, at a University of Winchester graduation ceremony last month, and who share leadership of Abbey Baptist Church in Reading, have credited their academic research with helping to build their congregation, and …
Angela Tilby: Can Christianity survive the next 50 years?
5 days ago · RECENT speculation about the future of the Church of England has been part of a wider questioning whether Christianity itself has a future. In a recent Spectator article, A. N. Wilson predicted that within 50 years the great cathedrals of Europe would be no more than “heritage” sites, their meaning incomprehensible to the crowds who visit them. . It would not be a complete end, thou
Church Times Review of the Year 2024
Dec 20, 2024 · A WAVE of Russian missile strikes on Ukraine marked the start of 2024, killing and injuring hundreds. The strikes were condemned by Ukrainian religious leaders. The Revd Paula Vennells, the Anglican priest who was chief executive of the Post Office during the Horizon IT scandal, said that she would ...
New churches are dropping the word ‘church’, report finds
Aug 13, 2024 · DIOCESES have jettisoned the use of the word “church” in describing the “new things” being established in their parishes, raising questions about what theology is being applied in the Church of England, an independent report says.. New Things: A theological investigation into the work of starting new churches across 11 dioceses in the Church of England reports that, in the past ten ...
UK news in brief - The Church Times
Jun 16, 2017 · Lord Harries’s British-values Bill progresses unamended. A BILL to extend the “British values” taught in schools to freedom of religion and respect for the environment, proposed by the former Bishop of Oxford Lord Harries, will now move to its Third Reading in the House of Lords, after no amendments were tabled.In the introduction to the Second Reading of his Education (Values of British ...
National Churches Trust draws up blueprint to show how to save …
Jan 25, 2024 · THE future of church buildings is the single biggest heritage challenge facing the UK, and a national plan is urgently needed, the National Churches Trust (NCT) says.. The support charity launched its latest campaign, Every Church Counts, at a reception in the House of Lords, on Wednesday.The latest figures show that 3500 churches closed in the past ten years, and more than 900 buildings are ...
‘In church-going terms, we have failed’ - The Church Times
Nov 8, 2024 · IT WAS one of the Church of England’s “South Bank Religion” sensations of the 1960s. In 1965, The Observer published an article by the Rector of Woolwich, the Revd Nick Stacey, headlined “A Mission’s Failure: The story of one church in pagan Britain”. Stacey, a former Olympic sprinter, had set himself the target of …