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4 days ago · Married couple receive their theology doctorates. A MARRIED couple who received their doctorates in theology and practice together, at a University of Winchester graduation ceremony last month, and who share leadership of Abbey Baptist Church in Reading, have credited their academic research with helping to build their congregation, and their ministry with illuminating their research
New churches are dropping the word ‘church’, report finds
Aug 13, 2024 · DIOCESES have jettisoned the use of the word “church” in describing the “new things” being established in their parishes, raising questions about what theology is being applied in the Church of England, an independent report says.. New Things: A theological investigation into the work of starting new churches across 11 dioceses in the Church of England reports that, in the past ten ...
Sunday's readings - Church Times
Nov 18, 2024 · Commentary on this Sunday. Your chance to join the Diocese of Chelmsford Programme Management Office as Programme Manager, working within a mission focused team to develop and shape coherent programmes of change ‘to enliven disciples to make disciples’ in the Bradwell episcopal area.
Church Times Review of the Year 2024
Dec 20, 2024 · A WAVE of Russian missile strikes on Ukraine marked the start of 2024, killing and injuring hundreds. The strikes were condemned by Ukrainian religious leaders. The Revd Paula Vennells, the Anglican priest who was chief executive of the Post Office during the Horizon IT scandal, said that she would ...
If a church closes, one fifth of the congregation won’t look for ...
Aug 21, 2024 · CHURCH closures can lead to a fall in overall church attendance, because worshippers are unwilling or unable to attend a different church, a new poll suggests.. The poll was commissioned by the National Churches Trust to draw attention to an increased rate of church closures in the UK. More than 3500 churches …
Reform Lords Spiritual while there is still time - The Church Times
4 days ago · AMID the pain of the Makin review and the unprecedented resignation of an Archbishop of Canterbury, readers could be forgiven for missing a moment of recent good fortune for the Established Church. The former Conservative cabinet minister Gavin Williamson brought an amendment to the Government Bill ...
UK news in brief - The Church Times
Jun 16, 2017 · Lord Harries’s British-values Bill progresses unamended. A BILL to extend the “British values” taught in schools to freedom of religion and respect for the environment, proposed by the former Bishop of Oxford Lord Harries, will now move to its Third Reading in the House of Lords, after no amendments were tabled.In the introduction to the Second Reading of his Education (Values of British ...
‘In church-going terms, we have failed’ - The Church Times
Nov 8, 2024 · IT WAS one of the Church of England’s “South Bank Religion” sensations of the 1960s. In 1965, The Observer published an article by the Rector of Woolwich, the Revd Nick Stacey, headlined “A Mission’s Failure: The story of one church in pagan Britain”. Stacey, a former Olympic sprinter, had set himself the target of …
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Married couple receive their theology doctorates. A MARRIED couple who received their doctorates in theology and practice together, at a University of Winchester graduation ceremony last month, and who share leadership of Abbey Baptist Church in Reading, have credited their academic research with helping to build their congregation, and …