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Women who represent the Church of England in Parliament have spoken out about what it means to be a female leader, as part of an initiative to inspire the next generation to follow in their footsteps. In the 100th anniversary year of women’s votes, the three sitting women bishops in the House of Lords, together...

They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old: age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them. About 20 years ago I had been to the local war memorial on Remembrance Sunday and had been thinking...

Lengthy services, solemn events and uncomfortable pews mean most people might not associate cathedrals with fun, but the Archbishop of Canterbury says that they can be the best places to find it. ‘Cathedrals are fun,’ he told the National Cathedrals Conference in Manchester Cathedral via video message. ‘There’s just so many things you can do...

Traidcraft plc is in trouble.  With very poor recent trading figures and despite enormous efforts by the staff and management and Fair Traders, it warns that the present model for the company may be no longer viable. Traidcraft’s charity branch, Traidcraft Exchange, will continue to support farmers and lobby government through its charitable arm, and...

Autumn has traditionally been a time when Christians explore the big questions about life and death. Watching the leaves fall and the nights draw in is an opportunity for all ages to think about love and loss and remember in special ways. Children ask questions about death for all kinds of reasons. It may come...

Andrew, whose feast day ends the Christian year on 30th November, is probably best known to us as the patron saint of Scotland, though his only connection with the country is that some of his bones were reputedly transported in the 8th century to Fife and preserved at a church in a place now named...

The Church of England is continuing to voice its concern over climate change. Following news that the summer of 2018 was the hottest on record in England, and the UK’s joint warmest overall, The Bishop of Salisbury, Nicholas Holtam, the Church of England’s lead bishop for Environmental Affairs, said: ‘It is becoming difficult for even...

Modern clergy in the Church of England can no longer be “king” in their parish, the new Dean of Salisbury, the Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, has said. ‘Once upon a time the vicar was a ‘king’ – I say king advisedly because it would in those days have been a he – he was the...

You’ve just sat down to supper and the phone rings. It is yet another cold-caller, trying to sell you something.  A nuisance to most of us, but a potential danger to hundreds of thousands of elderly and vulnerable people who might respond to the offer of ‘personal injury’ claims or ‘protection insurance’. It is reckoned...

Jesus is King Prayer to our God and King Remembrance Sunday Headstones Jehoram ** Jesus is King Revelation 19:16 Whether we believe it, or not, Whether we feel it, or not, Whether we care, or not, Whether we want it to be so, or not, Whether we acknowledge it, or not, The fact is, The...

Everyone knows it is dangerous to drive and text.  But many of us walk and text – with potentially disastrous results.  Now government transport advisers are thinking of placing road signs on the ground to guide so-called ‘zombie pedestrians’ who are glued to their phones – and oblivious of traffic around them. In Augsburg Germany,...

Are you afraid of the big spiders that come into your house each autumn?  Then avoid wandering around your house at about 7.35pm each evening. It seems that that is the peak time for creepy crawlies to scuttle around your house, looking for a mate.  An entomologist at the University of Gloucestershire adds:  ‘We think...