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Resignations and retirements
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (357+ words) Friday 11 September 2026 BAYLISS. The Revd Dr Geoffrey Bayliss, Team Rector in the Cowley Team Ministry, Area Dean of Cowley, and Hon. Canon of Christ Church, Oxford (Oxford). KENDRICK. The Revd Helen Kendrick, Rector of the Damascus Benefice, and Hon. Canon…...
Education: Lots of homework for school leaders
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (1187+ words) Friday 11 September 2026 Howard Dellar lists the new legal obligations that face school governors this academic year AS THE school gates open again after the summer break, head teachers, school and trust leaders, and school governors in the 4700 church schools in…...
Book review: A British Childhood: How our children live now by Frank Cottrell-Boyce
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (552+ words) Friday 11 September 2026 Paul Handley considers an indictment of today’s life for many children SINCE a core theme of this book is the power of stories, Frank Cottrell-Boyce will forgive the recounting of an anecdote from the preface that stays with…...
Save the Parish conference leaves Norfolk rural churches ‘hopeful’
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (458+ words) Friday 11 September 2026 All Saints’, Thorpe Abbotts, in Norfolk AMID deep concern for the future of the rural church, participants left a Save the Parish conference in Norwich feeling “hopeful”, its organiser said this week. The Bishop of Lynn, Dr Jane…...
Lack of skills could herald ‘crisis’, says Bishop of Leicester
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (323+ words) Friday 11 September 2026 Snow urges Government to expand supported volunteering for young people, as peers debate how vocational training and education can improve social mobility EDUCATIONAL challenges and rising numbers of young people not in education, employment, or training (NEETs) risk…...
Book review: Signs Among the Stones: A literary journey through C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia by Jem Bloomfield
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (346+ words) Friday 11 September 2026 Rachel Mann reads the third in a series on C. S. Lewis’s children’s tales Signs Among the Stones is the third volume in Bloomfield’s critical sequence, alongside the excellent Paths Through the Snow (about The Lion, The Witch and the…...
Prime Minister’s ‘map’ of faith in action published
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (564+ words) Friday 11 September 2026 Report estimates that 33,000 churches provide 250,000 instances of support each year The launch of the report Heart of the Neighbourhood in the Houses of Parliament on Tuesday A REPORT commissioned by the Prime Minister and championing the “significant yet…...
‘I was probably the only atheist in the room’: Alastair Campbell on Bible studies with Justin Welby
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (924+ words) Thursday 10 September 2026 Tony Blair’s former spin doctor, who once declared ‘We don’t do God,’ talks about his enduring interest in faith. Interview by James Macintyre Alastair Campbell in conversation at the Hay Festival last year ALASTAIR CAMPBELL, who famously told…...
TV review: Dolly Parton: Here I am, and The Great Wall of China with Dan Snow
1+ week, 4+ day ago (249+ words) Tuesday 01 September 2026 Jayne Manfredi on a ‘glittery history of the much-loved star’, and an exploration of a 5,000-mile epic structure Dolly Parton: Here I am is available to watch on BBC iPlayer, following the singer’s death last week DOLLY PARTON:…...