Clergy perform thousands of emergency pastoral services in the community every year, prompting Church House Publishing to compile the essentials for pastoral ministry in a portable, easy-reference volume.
15 October 2012
[St Paul’s Cathedral] The service of evensong at St Paul’s Cathedral on 14th October was planned to incorporate prayers by Occupy Faith and a sermon which spoke clearly of the need for partnership between Occupy, St Paul’s and others in addressing the need for financial and political change which Occupy highlighted.
15 October 2012
Churches across the country are supporting vital foodbanks for their local communities as part of their traditional harvest festival.
12 October 2012
Proposals to absorb the services of two specialist health watchdogs into the Care Quality Commission to save half a million pounds per year have been criticised by the Mission and Public Affairs (MPA) Council.
11 October 2012
The Archbishop of York today spoke in The Guardian [newspaper] about tackling injustice through the principle of 'jubilee'.
09 October 2012
It may shock traditionalists but vicars have taken to the catwalk to model the latest fashions in clergy robes.
09 October 2012
A groundbreaking partnership between two religious denominations has been inaugurated in North Yorkshire.
08 October 2012
The commissioning service for the Rev Canon Philip Mounstephen, the new Executive Leader of the Church Mission Society, takes place at St Aldate’s church, Oxford on Saturday 13 October at 1.30pm.
05 October 2012
All are invited to visit and interact with a new website built to support the work of the Church Growth Research Programme - the national 18-month academic research project exploring the factors related to spiritual and in particular numerical church growth of the Church of England.
02 October 2012
BBC Local radio has today [26.09.12] released results of a survey that helps establish how people view the Archbishop of Canterbury’s nine year tenure.
26 September 2012