British Isles
Faith schools rules to be relaxed?
16 Sep 2016
The government is set to relax rules on how faith schools select pupils, to allow new Catholic schools to open in England, according to a Number Ten source. It comes as the education secretary said ministers…
Call to bless the UK
16 Sep 2016
Dr Clifford Hill writes, ‘It is vital that those in Britain who know the Lord declare the Gospel with their words and lives.’ In the aftermath of the vote to leave the EU all the forecasts…
Many in General Synod support LGBT
16 Sep 2016
A letter to the College of Bishops, signed by three deans, eight archdeacons, and 72 members of the House of Laity, states, ‘We are keen that the College of Bishops is unequivocal in its acknowledgement that…
Getting scriptures to the lost
16 Sep 2016
In thirty years over 100 million Bibles have been printed to keep up with global demand. Yet in the UK 90% of people don’t read it. One third of 15-year-olds don’t know that the nativity story…
Dementia: Living in the Memories of God
09 Sep 2016
The Michael Ramsey Prize, which is sponsored by the Lambeth Trust and administered by SPCK, was inaugurated in 2005 to encourage the most promising contemporary theological writing and to identify it for a wider Christian readership.…
Muslims and the media
09 Sep 2016
A Muslim family were accused of being terrorists on their trip to Skegness. They won't be returning: they said, ‘It didn’t really bother us until a man shouted “terrorists”.’ A survey found a 326% rise in…