The Church Times Cricket Cup began in 1951 and has been fiercely contested by dioceses ever since. The idea for an inter-diocesan cricket competition was first suggested by the Revd Greader Bussell, ...

CONCERN about an escalation of the conflict in the Middle East grew after a strike on Iranian territory early on Friday.

Long Covid also refined Mr Draper’s thoughts on healing and recovery. “I think it’s given me an insight into the long process ...

OVERSEAS aid should be spent overseas, the Bishop of Worcester, Dr John Inge, has said, after new data showed that more than one quarter of the UK’s aid budget was being spent domestically. Figures ...

28 April, Acts 8.26-end; Psalm 22.25-end; 1 John 4.7-end; John 15.1-8 JOHN 15.1-8 is straightforward. Bear good fruit, and you are a true disciple. Its simplicity is not weakened by Jesus’s use of a ...

ST MARY’s, Westfield, in Workington, has been awarded a local-government grant for a new garden and therapeutic drumming space, part of its community outreach projects. The award of £3050 from ...

TEARFUND is urging United Nations negotiators to agree a global plastics treaty to save communities from being buried under piles of plastic waste, which, the Christian aid agency says, are damaging ...

The Liberal and Reform movements are exploring a union to be known as Progressive Judaism. JL: We were both born into Progressive Judaism, and also made conscious decisions. I went on a journey, ...

Sonorous Desert: What deep listening taught Early Christian monks — and what it can teach us by Kim Haines-Eitzen (Princeton, £12.99 (£11.69); 978-0-691-25928-4). New in paperback “Sonorous Desert ...

THE dawn vigil and eucharist at Easter has always been my favourite service of the year. There is something so imaginatively rich about hearing the long succession of Old Testament readings outdoors, ...