1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (785+ words) We often project later experiences back into history, consciously or unconsciously assuming an inevitability to what finally occurred. However, history is complex and, what now seems inevitable, did not always look that way in the past. The distribution of forms…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (565+ words) The report follows a consultation in March attended by clergy, theologians, theological educators, church officials and other stakeholders. Stipendiary clergy numbers within the Church have been declining since the 1960s. In May of this year the number of stipendiary clergy was…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (554+ words) This is the opening thought in the Haftorah reading for the last Shabbat in the month of Elul, before Rosh Hashanah, which takes place on the 1st of Tishri. It appears in Isaiah 55:6-56:8, the final Haftorah of Comfort. It is believed…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1054+ words) Greig says the word came to him in March while he was in South Africa worshipping with a group of 24-7 Prayer leaders. The apparent prophecy was not accompanied by a specific prediction about the identity of an enemy, the timing…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (714+ words) Church leaders have offered their prayers and support following the death of Pastor Robert Guanco at the Big Church Festival. The 41-year-old was the pastor of Jesus Living Water Church in Eastbourne. He died after a sign fell during the…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1303+ words) Gay activism was my passion. I felt suicidal throughout my teens. It was only when overcome with a crippling depression in 1985 that I broke down and came out to my parents when aged 17. Dad and Mum were amazing - merciful, kind,…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1070+ words) The latest findings from the American Bible Society’s ‘State of the Bible USA 2026,’ which focuses on church health, suggest a mixed picture of the Church in the United States, with relatively strong levels of satisfaction among churchgoers contrasting with continued…...