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Church launches consultation on plans to get to net zero carbon in just nine years First meeting of the new General Synod Churches awarded £6m in latest Cultural Recovery Fund grants for major works Church Commissioners “excellent” in private equity and venture capital ESG Landmark New TPI Global Climate Transition Centre to be created Daily...

For many of us, the lure of a ‘perfect’ Christmas lurks in our subconscious. Advertisers play into this desire for serving the best food, the home looking super cosy and festive and everyone wonderfully ‘suited and booted’. The reality of Christmas is, of course, always different. It often involves anxiety, tensions and arguments in between...

The recent 7.2 magnitude earthquake and Tropical Depression Grace that hit Haiti (in August) left 2,189 people dead, with a further 12,200 injured, and at least 129,000 homes either damaged or completely destroyed. Following the disaster, All We Can and the Methodist Church in Britain launched an appeal to support those affected. They have sent...

There are two early stories that mention fir trees.  The first involves St Boniface, who went to Germany in the 8th century as a missionary and found people sacrificing a child to their god under an oak tree.  Boniface was appalled, and rescued the child. He then chopped down the oak tree and found a...

If you are out on the roads this month, beware: drivers who eat fast food may increase their risk of crashing cars. That is the finding of a recent study into the effects of what happens to drivers when they eat snacks high in sugar and fats. Such foods were found to cause drivers to...

“A cold coming they had of it at this time of the year, just the worst time of the year to take a journey, and specially a long journey, in.  The way’s deep, the weather sharp, the days short, the sun farthest off, in solstitio brumali, the very dead of winter.” It was 1622, and...

This Christmas, why not make an extra effort to be kind to your neighbours? It seems that neighbourly distrust has grown more than fivefold since the summer of 2020, with one in five of us now saying that relations in our community have soured. On the plus side, there are still 25 per cent of...

The coronavirus pandemic has pushed an estimated 120 million people into poverty. Most of these will have to wait until at least 2022 to receive their vaccine. Tearfund says: “The only way out of this pandemic is to recover together – no country is safe until all countries are safe. People who are going hungry...

What will you do with the Christmas gifts you don’t want?  Depends on your sex. It seems that women are 60% more likely than men to return or give away Christmas presents they don’t want. What are considered unwanted presents?  One list includes potato peelers, a carpet cleaner, a sleeve ironing board, a mop and...

The Church of England is consulting dioceses, cathedrals, national institutions, parishes, schools, and other interested parties on a proposed route map to achieve net zero carbon by 2030. The draft route map suggests how all parts of the Church of England can make changes together, in order to achieve the ambitious target set by General...

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Advent From the Vicar A Christmas Gift What a Christmas Amazed! Music for the Messiah When someone you loved is dead ** Editor:  The Revd Canon Paul Hardingham on waiting for Christmas. Advent Waiting is not popular in our culture, when so much can be obtained simply at the press of a button! Advent, when...