Christian Aid last week launched a new initiative to raise £20 million by 2030 📈 to support locally owned businesses helping communities adapt to climate change. #ChristianAid #ChurchTimes #WorldNews

Guidance from the Church of England on engagement with Israel 🇮🇱 / Palestine 🇵🇸 should enable churches to create communities “where compassion isn’t selective”, the President of the Leeds Jewish Representative Council, Simon Myerson KC, said this week. #ChurchTimes #ChurchNews

➡️ The Rector of St Helen’s, Bishopsgate, in London, the Revd William Taylor, has characterised the bishops of the Church of England as “false teachers” and “clear heretics”, in a sermon published on YouTube last week. #ChurchTimes #ChurchNews

➡️ The synod of the Episcopal diocese of Jerusalem, which gathered in Amman last week, said on Sunday that its communities were facing “an existential crisis” that demanded the urgent attention of the Church and the international community. #ChurchTimes

Details of a new Survivor Support Fund, to come into effect on 1 October, were published by Church House last week. #ChurchTimes #Safeguarding

Cultural humility was the note sounded by the Bishop of Leicester, the Rt Revd Martyn Snow, in the Healthcare 🏥 Development: International Partnerships debate in the House of Lords last week. #ChurchTimes #HouseOfLords #ChurchNews

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🕊️ Obituary: The Revd Geoffrey Cox — ‘He always remained a gracious and valued friend with those in other denominations, and preached wherever he was invited.’ #ChurchTimes

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 CiW Governing Body: Fundamental questions have arisen about the future of the #ChurchInWales, the Representative Body acknowledges in a detailed paper on future funding put before the Governing Body for consideration on Wednesday of last week. #ChurchTimes #ChurchNews

A website that features 38,048 individual recordings of chapters of the Bible, sung in 16 different genres, has exceeded one million song plays within the first two weeks of its launch. #News #WorldNews #ChurchTimes

📙 Review: Philip Welsh on the Beatitudes considered #BookReviews #ChurchTimes

💬 Quotes of the week: Striking sayings or writings from the past week. Readers’ contributions welcome #ChurchTimes

✝️ Amatu Christian-Iwuagwu is inspired by his diverse experience: ‘I found myself wondering whether many churches in Britain are living through a kind of Holy Saturday.’ #ChurchTimes #Faith #Features

The Diocese of York seeks a new Archdeacon of Cleveland who will, amongst other things, be ’missionally audacious … self-aware and undefended…’ What? #CofE #ChurchTimes

📒 Notebook: Pat Ashworth reflects on a summer of upheaval and finding hope along the way #ChurchTimes #Regulars

✍️ Poet’s Corner: Malcolm Guite pays tribute to two great Americans: Wendell Berry and Dolly Parton @malcolmguite.bsky.social #ChurchTimes

📕 Review: Michael Wheeler on the novelists’ rapport that led to an ‘unlucky book’ #ChurchTimes #BookReviews

📙 Review: Graham James enjoys a short book about the small church’s mission #ChurchTimes #BookReviews

Members of the Redress Scheme’s survivor advisory group have raised concerns about the scheme in a 📨 letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury. #ChurchAbuse #ChurchTimes #ChurchNews

🕊️ Obituary: Canon David Winter — ‘Conversations were warm, unhurried, and rich with insight. He was the very best kind of mentor’ #ChurchTimes #Gazette