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Claire Gilbert: Following Julian of Norwich into the cell of the heart
This week’s podcast brings a talk by Claire Gilbert given at the recent event “Fired in the heart: An online Advent retreat with Julian of Norwich”, hosted by the Church Times and Canterbury Press. Her talk includes a reading from her latest book,...

Bishop of Chelmsford’s Bill proposes legal pathways for asylum-seekers
A HUMANITARIAN visa scheme that would create a legal pathway for asylum-seekers to enter the UK has been proposed by the Bishop of Chelmsford, Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani, in an attempt to dismantle the people-smuggling operations that send thousands ...

‘Squid Vicar’ does not stand still in pastoral situation
DUBBED the “Squid Vicar” by fellow contestants, the Revd Lee Taylor clearly made an impact in the Netflix game show Squid Game: The challenge, despite being eliminated in a brutal — and allegedly unjust — first round. In the first of a series of g...

Festival of Faith and Music launched by Church Times and Royal School of Church Music
THE Church Times, in partnership with the Royal School of Church Music (RSCM), has launched a new event, the Festival of Faith and Music, to take place in York Minster from 26 to 28 April 2024. Through a programme of music and worship, talks and w...

Latest English Hymnal descendant christened in London
IT WASN’T a thousand voices shouting to the saints, as one of the hymns in the sample booklet put it; but about 80 people gathered in St James’s, Sussex Gardens, in London, on Wednesday evening last week, to put a fair wind behind the latest revis...

Bishop of Manchester berates Chancellor for lack of ambition
FAR from being a long-term vision for Britain’s future, the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement (News, 24 November) was “a whispered croak from a governmental death-bed”, the Bishop of Manchester, Dr David Walker, told the House of Lords in a debate on ...