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Church Times
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Standing Committee blocks move to expel US
A proposal to separate the Episcopal Church from the Anglican Communion has been rejected by the Communion’s Standing Committee.
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Axe hovers over world of academic theology
UNIVERSITY theology departments are facing a turbulent autumn with rounds of staffing cuts and closures.
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Desmond Tutu to retire from public life
The Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, Dr Desmond Tutu, announced this week that he is to withdraw from public life.
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Blair: British media have a dangerous ignorance of faith
THE British media need to be “educated” about religion, said the former Prime Minister Tony Blair at an international short-film event
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Live with each other, Lutherans urged
THE Archbishop of Canterbury warned Lutherans last week of the “variety of traps” that Churches can fall into.
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Canadian priest repents of canine communion
AN ANGLICAN church in Canada has caused an outcry after a dog was given holy communion.
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Priest given dream job of ‘first’ chaplain to conservation area
The Revd Gill Hopkins is believed to be the first C of E chaplain to be licensed to a conservation area.
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Sculpture made from wire coat-hangers
A crucifix by the artist David Mach, on show in Parliament Square, outside St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh.
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Home news in brief
Archbishop of York tells of police searches; Bishop of Bradwell to retire next year; Children’s Society welcomes child detention progress; Archbishop of Canterbury to visit India; St Paul’s Cathedral launches ‘economic think-tank’; Canterbury training scheme’s future in doubt; Modern Churchpeople rebranded;
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Holy chat-up lines to be honed
FAITH leaders “with a good sense of humour” are being encouraged to take part in a speed-dating event with a difference on 23 September.
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Europe not defined by religion, PM tells Turkey
DAVID CAMERON’s visit to Ankara and his support for Turkey’s membership of the European Union are likely to reassure Turkish Christians
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Highness
Photograph of the Princess Royal at Lincoln Cathedral.
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Saxbee slates new Bill
THE Academies Bill, approved by MPs on Monday by a majority of 92, has been criticised in a letter to The Guardian by the Bishop of Lincoln.
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Keeping Thought for the Day for main faiths is ‘misguided’
A report, published by Ekklesia, says that those who defend Thought for the Day’s religious “distinctiveness” risk “consigning religion into a sacred ghetto”.
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Television presenter backs VAT campaign
Griff Rhys Jones has lent his support to the campaign to save the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme.
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Sacred signing
An enclosed order of nuns from the Abbaye de Notre-Dame de l’Annonciation, near Avignon, have been signed by Decca to produce an album of Gregorian chant.
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Kasper: my regrets over unity
THE former President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Cardinal Walter Kasper, has expressed his frustration over the difficulty of inter-communion.
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Overseas news in brief
Mugabe rejects gay rights; Tighter security in Uganda
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New view
The Dome of St Paul’s, One New Change by Nessie Ramm is one of the original works by 64 artists which St Paul’s Cathedral is to exhibit to celebrate its 300th anniversary
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Williams and Carey express muted welcome and fears for Big Society
The Archbishop of Canterbury and his predecessor, Lord Carey, have both expressed misgivings about the Government’s Big Society programme
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Interview: Sara Miles, author
‘I embarrassed people by talking too much about Jesus’
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The Clapham Sect and its part in the slave trade
The abolitionists were not as radical as history has portrayed them, Steve Tomkins discovered
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A garden is a lovesome thing
Christine Miles and Marcus Dunk pick six beautiful gardens with Christian connections to visit this summer
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Maggie Durran: Cuts will mean fewer grants
We are not sure how to proceed, but it looks as if the grant we have been offered by our local authority, for work to develop our building for community use, may disappear owing to government cuts.
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