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1 week ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Pat Ashworth
THE Church must wake up to the extreme inequalities experienced by Gypsies, Travellers, and Roma, a conference held at Salisbury Cathedral and Sarum College heard on Wednesday.
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1 week ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Pat Ashworth
FEWER than a quarter of UK companies have detected forced labour in their supply chains, it was announced on Wednesday. The pilot Global Modern Slavery Benchmark, published by the investment company CCLA, which is owned by church, charity, and local-authority investment funds, assesses corporate performance against statutory requirements, government guidance, and human-rights standards. The report has appeared as Britain marks the tenth anniversary of the UK Modern Slavery Act.
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2 weeks ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Pat Ashworth
AN ASSISTANT curate from Exeter diocese is leading a team walking the 256-mile coastal path from Land’s End in Cornwall to Cranbrook, in Devon, to raise money to build a church and community space in the new town of Cranbrook. An assistant curate in the Broadclyst Team Ministry and Minister-in-Charge of Cranbrook, the Revd Jon Holder, is positive about the experience, which is the equivalent of climbing one-and-a-half Mount Everests.
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2 weeks ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Pat Ashworth
ANGLICANS worldwide are being called on to fulfil the vision of the Lambeth Call on Mission and Evangelism, with each diocese urged to make a new commitment to planting and revitalising churches. The Call is one of a set of recommendations drawn up at the 2023 Lambeth Conference, and continued in a series of webinars presented to a global audience.
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3 weeks ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Pat Ashworth
THE word “outreach” occurred in almost every context at the Church of Ireland General Synod, meeting in Naas, Co. Kildare, last Friday and Saturday. It featured most prominently in a private member’s motion on the Friday, which sought to set up a working group to explore the possibility of allowing clergy to solemnise marriages in secular venues.
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3 weeks ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Pat Ashworth
MEMBERS the Church of Ireland’s General Synod, meeting in Naas, Co. Kildare, last Friday and Saturday, had the rare opportunity of viewing original footage of a film, thought to have been lost, which was screened in 1970 to mark the centenary of the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland. The 29-minute film, produced by Radharc Films for the national broadcasting network RTÈ, was recently discovered by staff in the Representative Church Body Library, in the shape of an unmarked 16mm cine film.
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3 weeks ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Pat Ashworth
A CUMBRIAN cellist and poet is set to undertake a 2000-mile bicycle pilgrimage that will take him to all 42 English cathedrals in the space of seven weeks. Kenneth Wilson, who is 66, will be undertaking “Pilgrim Cello”, and, in 40 of the cathedrals, he will perform a specially written “Seven Last Words Meditation”, which interleaves poetry of the Seven Last Words with the Sarabandes from Bach’s six cello suites.
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3 weeks ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Pat Ashworth
YOUNG people, especially Generation Z, are looking for authenticity of experience rather than “the yada-yada which passes for the discussion of faith and spirituality”, the Archbishop of Armagh, the Most Revd John McDowell, told the Church of Ireland’s General Synod, meeting in Naas, Co. Kildare, on Friday and Saturday. “For them, Christian leadership is an active expression of faith,” he said. “They have very little time for ecclesiastical jargon.
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1 month ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Pat Ashworth
VALUING the small and traditional alongside the large and pioneering was a recurrent theme as the Governing Body (GB) of the Church in Wales met in Llandudno last week. “We celebrate the big stories but also the small ones from those small communities who work away at it all, Sunday after Sunday,” the chair of the Representative Body (RB), Professor Medwin Hughes, said. “But it’s about the people of God sitting together, sharing opportunities that others will come and walk with us. . .
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1 month ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Pat Ashworth
SCHOOL students challenged MPs last week to see poverty through their eyes and understand its effect on life at school, home, and in the community. Every young person should have an equal opportunity to do well and not just to survive, they told them.
