9+ hour, 36+ min ago  (1199+ words) Friday 19 June 2026 Hospitality is crucial, directors of Yorkshire retreat centre say. Madeleine Davies reports Phil and Di Stone, leaving Scargill after 16 years THE sudden announcement in 2008 that Scargill House, in Yorkshire, was to close elicited both sorrow and anger. It…...

9+ hour, 31+ min ago  (461+ words) Friday 19 June 2026 Energy charges are claimed by Yorkshire Gas and Power The Thornbury Centre, in Bradford, which was opened in 1999 at the behest of the congregation of St Margaret of Antioch, whose original building was demolished owing to subsidence A…...

2+ day, 45+ min ago  (1076+ words) Wednesday 17 June 2026 Bishop Poggo addresses the General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church in Stirling THE Scottish Episcopal Church (SEC) shows "the historic diversity of the Anglican tradition" and has "helped to break free of colonial ways of thinking", the…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago  (546+ words) Friday 12 June 2026 Tensions renewed with the country's Prime Minister after election landslide The Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, speaks at his party HQ on Monday THE Armenian Apostolic Church is facing renewed tensions with the country's Prime Minister, Nikol…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago  (517+ words) Thursday 11 June 2026 Mullally preaches in St Paul's Cathedral at a service celebrating charity's 150th birthday An historic sign from'the Mothers' Union archives'is rehung outside the charity's central offices at Mary Sumner House, London,'to mark its 150th anniversary. The charity is also…...

1+ week, 22+ hour ago  (861+ words) Thursday 11 June 2026 SAFEGUARDING in the Church of England could be broadened to include anyone harmed or at risk of harm in a church context, after the C of E's National Safeguarding Team (NST) launched a consultation. The fresh approach is…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago  (289+ words) Friday 05 June 2026 Michael Wheeler on the merits, or otherwise, of Protestant polemicists Fifty thousand copies of Goode's flawed tract were sold by 1898. So, in this instance, the most underrated Evangelical of the 19th century emulated the sales figures of one of…...

3+ week, 9+ hour ago  (1084+ words) Friday 29 May 2026 St Helens deanery, along with West Derby, was the first to embark on Fit for Mission The Interim Bishop of Liverpool, the Rt Revd Ruth Worsley, at the service designating St Helens Parish Church as a Minster, on…...

4+ week, 9+ hour ago  (384+ words) Friday 22 May 2026 J. Tyler Brown reads a sequel to Tom Wright's Surprised by Hope The book's primary thesis is that this fulfilment has now taken place in the "coming home" of God in Jesus, the human face of God, and the…...

4+ week, 9+ hour ago  (298+ words) Friday 22 May 2026 Thanks to generous readers for supporting ordinands in need and those earlier in the exploration of their vocation A FINAL update on our Church Times Train-a-Priest (TAP) Fund: generous readers have given "25, 657. 83 this year towards the TAP Fund,…...