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JESUS has spoken about the true vine. Now he turns to love, friendship, and obedience. But he still keeps the vine in mind, as he speaks about his soon-to-be-apostles, and the fruit they are to bear, specifically fruit that will last. “Fruit that ..read more
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On the podcast this week, Fr Alex Frost — parish priest, best-selling author, and host of The God Cast — talks to Madeleine Davies about the Church of England’s problems connecting with people from working-class settings. Fr Alex has written a co ..read more
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A FORMER chair of the International Development Select Committee, the Liberal Democrat peer Lord Bruce, has described the Government’s cut to the overseas aid budget as an “act of vandalism”. He was delivering the keynote address to a conference a ..read more
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A NEW digital trail at St Paul’s Cathedral is to unpick the history of its monuments to people connected to the East India Company, and the “past injustice” of the British Empire, it was announced on Tuesday. The consequences of colonisation are s ..read more
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THE trustees of a former primary school in Rathmell and the diocese of Leeds settled their dispute out of court on Monday, hours before a scheduled High Court hearing (News, 5 April). It now clears the way for the diocese to approach the Secretary ..read more
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HUMAN values such as virtue should be embedded in military weapons system that are enabled by artificial intelligence, the Bishop of Newcastle, Dr Helen-Ann Hartley, has said. Dr Hartley spoke in a House of Lords debate last Friday on a report by ..read more
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THE Consistory Court of the diocese of Liverpool has granted permission for a war memorial to be moved from the porch of All Saints’, Childwall, and to be repositioned on the wall of the west end of the church. All Saints’ is a Grade ..read more
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THE Bishop of Swansea & Brecon, the Rt Revd John Lomas, drew the meeting’s attention to the Bench of Bishops’ report. It included a reference to the Sacred Synod service in November, which confirmed the election of Bishop Dorrien D ..read more
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THE Archbishop of Wales, the Most Revd Andrew John, was reportedly castigated by the chief executive of Welsh Water (Dwr Cymru) for “daring [in his presidential address] to mention sewage in a catchment known for factory-farm pollution,&rdqu ..read more
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THE Bishop of St Asaph, the Rt Revd Gregory Cameron, introduced Daily with God, a new prayer manual for the Church in Wales. He told the meeting how, as a young Christian, he had learned how to establish his own prayer life: on the school bus, a 2 ..read more