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Claire Gilbert on Miles to Go Before I Sleep: Letters on hope, death and learning to live
On this week’s podcast, Claire Gilbert talks to Gareth Higgins about her book Miles to Go Before I Sleep: Letters on hope, death and learning to live (Hodder & Stoughton). It’s available to buy from the Church Times Bookshop for the reduced pr...

Commissioners on course to be net zero 20 years after the rest of the C of E
AS PRESIDENT BIDEN hosts a world leaders’ summit announcing a new national plan to tackle climate change under the Paris climate accord, it has emerged that the Church Commissioners have opted out of a decision last year by the General Synod, call...

Investigating the C of E’s forestry holdings
EVEN before Covid lockdowns gave us a new appreciation of our neighbouring parks and woodland, love of forests was on the rise. A 2019 study suggested that 95 per cent of the UK agreed that forests and woodlands were important to the public, becau...

Get back to nature this June in a churchyard, charities urge
CHURCH communities and their visitors are being urged to join a week-long survey this summer of the creatures and plants that inhabit their churchyards. Church land, which is often uncultivated or undeveloped for generations, is regarded by conser...

5th Sunday of Easter
NOT everything about the Bible is difficult. When scripture speaks straightforwardly, we sometimes shrink from the plain sense, like St Bernard reading the Song of Songs as depicting the love between God and his Church; 1 John 4.12 is as clear as ...

Church of England given a timetable to halt racism
WITHIN months, racial-justice officers are to be appointed to every diocese of the Church of England, and a racial-justice directorate is to be created, to combat institutional racism and lack of diversity within the Church from the ground up — if...