THE Archdeacon of the East Riding, the Ven. Andrew Broom, is to retire on 1 September. His farewell service will be in Beverley Minster on 30 June. Archdeacon Broom, who was previously in the diocese ...

MURRAY GRANT who died on 30 April, was born in Bristol in 1936. He had an uneasy relationship with his father and, at the age of 16, joined the merchant navy. From 1955 to 1962, he was a steward on ...

The Rt Revd Stephen Platten writes: DESPITE his humility and ability, Canon Peter Fisher, who died on 17 March, came from an august clerical background. Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher was his great-uncle, ...

THE Archbishop of Canterbury has raised a series of “urgent new questions” about AI. Leading a debate on the subject in the House of Lords on Friday, she asked: “Does AI make human life more human?” ...

IN AN unusually personal speech, the Bishop of Chelmsford, Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani, has described her journey of miscarriages and IVF treatment before having three children, who, she said, were “a ...

Have a go at our next caption competition (click on image to see full picture). Send entries by email only to captioncompetition@churchtimes.co.uk by 9 a.m., Monday 15 June We invite readers’ ideas ...

A QUAKER and peace worker, Gerald Drewett, who celebrated his 90th birthday last month, has embarked on a ten-year “Nineties odyssey” to walk 4000 steps a day for the next 90 days — and to repeat the ...

A NEW charity which aims to install recycled organs in schools to encourage young people to learn to play has already attracted 13 pupils at one. The charity, Organs for Schools, founded by Keith ...

THE status of men and masculinity has been under more investigation than ever during the past decade. There have been ongoing debates about men’s participation in a culture that privileges them, ...

IN A crowded church compound that has been converted into a displacement shelter in Chin state, western Myanmar, 19-year-old Esther quietly washes and folds a bloodstained cloth behind a plastic sheet ...

PRESIDENT TRUMP “has unleashed something he cannot control” in Iran, where “the prospect of a negotiated long-term ceasefire appears to be fading,” the Bishop of Chelmsford, Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani, ...

I THOUGHT of my dad as a bit of a Jedi when I was little. He wore a long black cloak with a lion’s-head clasp, and he was up at six every morning, ringing the single, repeating bell for morning prayer ...