Church

Such sweet sorrow

Lent is an ideal time to take pleasure in a gentle, contemplative and very English strand of musical melancholia

Features
The Rev Colin Godley: Media vicar

A man for all airwaves

Arty Types
Priest holes and priest hunters

By excluding the unvaccinated from the Eucharist, the church sets its face against the faithful

Artillery Row
Save the Parish!

The Church of England has plans, and the clergy aren’t happy. David Scullion discusses with Alison Milbank and Marcus Walker

Artillery Row
Death comes for the church building

The Church of England abandons historic buildings – can they have an afterlife?

Artillery Row
Don’t sever the head

How the cultural shift and a departure from central purposes risks making the Church unrecognisable to the grassroots members who support it

Artillery Row
Preaching to the choir

The Church will soon hit a Hartlepool moment, when people who feel politically unwelcome go elsewhere

Sounding Board
Vaccine passports can’t be allowed for church

The government seems to think church buildings can be lumped in with pubs and cinemas

Artillery Row
The easiest country to govern

Michael Coren on the churches aggressively resisting restrictions

Artillery Row
Meeting others to worship is a lifeline

Criminalising corporate worship is both damaging and dangerous for Scotland, says Rev. Dr William Philip

Artillery Row