THE status of the clergy as office-holders “must not be used to place increasing demands and expectations on clergy without ...

IN DECEMBER 1808, the painter Caspar David Friedrich arranged an exhibition in his Dresden studio to show his latest work, an ...

ONE of the words for time frequently used in the Greek New Testament is kairos. It is for those magic moments transcending clock time (chronos), providing divine glimpses of eternity for those with ...

MANY of us may have had various volumes in The Observer’s Books series on our bookshelves. The first was published in 1937, The Observer’s Book of British Birds. I think I had a copy along with the ...

PEOPLE believe, the author says in her introduction, that modern Western culture is based on those of Greece and Rome. Lost to Europe during the Dark Ages, they were rediscovered at the Renaissance, ...

THIS delightful little book seeks to rescue humility as a key moral virtue. The author is Professor of History at Kean University, New Jersey, academic editor of the Paulist Press, and a regular ...

THE Media Bill is now an Act of Parliament, after it was pushed through its final stages in the House of Lords last week, ...

THE C of E section of Unite the Union has called on the Archbishops’ Council to increase the national minimum stipend (NMS) ...

St Luke’s Chapel, in the grounds of Nottingham City Hospital ( above ), and this large Victorian vicarage ( below) and hall ...

THE Diocesan Chancellor of Bristol has criticised a group of petitioners from St Bartholomew’s, Bristol, for their ...

THE fact that the Renters (Reform) Bill will not be passed before the General Election is “deeply disappointing”, the ...

A European Christian Political Movement, formed in 2002, claims to be the only formation “explicitly promoting Christian ...