🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 CiW Governing Body: Enthusiasm for organic union wanes, and church leaders call for a period of reflection on the future of ecumenism #ChurchInWales #ChurchTimes

📕 Review: Madeleine Davies on a benevolent portrayal of small-town life #BookReviews #ChurchTimes

Line management in the Church of England must be fixed if the growing number of 👦 children’s, youth, and families workers being recruited are to flourish, a researcher has said. #ChurchNews #YouthMinistry #ChurchTimes

🍃 Sally Welch finds ‘wild church’ more of a struggle than she had expected: ’Wild church can encourage all generations to discover the joy and wonder of the natural world and how it can illustrate the loving purposes of God.’ #Faith #Features #ChurchTimes

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Governing Body: Bishops delay plans to introduce a Bill allowing 🏳️‍🌈 same-sex couples to marry in church, saying more time is needed for theological reflection #ChurchInWales #ChurchTimes

After decades of ministry in Hong Kong 🇭🇰, Jackie Pullinger tells Vicky Walker that she has no plans to retire #Features #ChurchTimes

🧐 Analysis: Technology has not made 📺 TV viewing a more isolated pastime, ✏️ Holly Price #ChurchTimes #Comment

🇬🇧 Reform UK announced last month a policy to abolish Personal Independence Payments (PIP) for ♿︎ disabled people, a benefit that many rely on to live an independent and functioning life. #ChurchTimes #ReformUK #ChurchNews

Youth crime, in which “many young people . . . are not simply offenders but often victims of exploitation and trauma,” was highlighted by the Bishop of Edmundsbury & Ipswich, Dr Joanne Grenfell, in the House of Lords last week. #ChurchTimes

📚 New Titles: This week’s selection: a companion to the Psalms; a guide to the parables; and Sister Wendy Beckett’s spiritual vision #Books #ChurchTimes

📙 Review: Lyle Dennen considers a hopeful commentator #BookReviews #ChurchTimes

📈 Amid challenging conditions for the nation’s places of worship, the National Churches Trust has reported a surge in income, boosted by “exceptional levels of legacy notifications and major donor income”. 💷 #ChurchTimes #ChurchNews

🎧 Podcast Review: Azariah France-Williams on Learning How to See with Brian McLaren, The Deeper Thinking Podcast, Hope in the Holy Land, and Greenbelt Talks #ChurchTimes #Podcasts

🇬🇧 Among the snippets this week: Gordon Brown visits Lambeth to discuss poverty, and Canon Tim Lomax to be next Bishop of Warwick #NewsBriefs #ChurchTimes

🇺🇸 150-year-old Episcopal church in Riverhead, New York, renovated and reopened as home for ministry to farm workers and Spanish-speaking communities #ChurchTimes #WorldNews 🌎

🤖 AIs that simulate dead loved ones deny people’s humanity and may deprive them of resurrection hope, ✍️ Mike Jackson #Comment #ChurchTimes

The ‘season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’ has begun, ✍️ Malcolm Guite (@malcolmguite.bsky.social) #PoetsCorner #ChurchTimes

“The UK is struggling to switch off,” research commissioned to coincide with National Retreat Week has concluded. #Retreat #ChurchTimes #ChurchNews

📒 Notebook: Patrick Kidd on church idiolect, old newspapers, and fame #Notebook #ChurchTimes

📺 Review: Jayne Manfredi on the story of the first English known to be written by a woman, and the paradigm shift of 9/11 #television #review #ChurchTimes