by Sean Reilly | May 15, 2008
The Church of Scotland is planning substantial financial investment in new forms of church life. At its upcoming General Assembly, the Kirk’s Ministries Council will outline plans to devote £1.5 million over five years to ’emerging ministries’. The...
by Sean Reilly | May 14, 2008
The British Humanist Association (BHA) has called on the government to support the new report from Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights which calls for children to be given the right to withdraw from worship in schools. The report says that any child of...
by Sean Reilly | May 14, 2008
Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams and the Anglican Bishop of London, Richard Chartres, welcomed leaders from business, government and civil society to Lambeth Palace yesterday for a Climate Change round table. The event was organised by the Together campaign,...
by Sean Reilly | May 14, 2008
In a move which belies the anger of Christian groups complaining at the downgrading of religious imagery on British stamps, the Royal Mail yesterday issued a set of ten stamps celebrating ten of Britain’s historic cathedrals. They will probably now face...
by Sean Reilly | May 13, 2008
Methodists in Britain have been told by their president that the future holds a mixed prospects for both renewal and demise for. The Rev Dr Martyn Atkins was speaking at a large Pentecost rally in the heart of the capital. The denominational head’s comments came...
