📚Education: Ed Bevan hears about the children who are taking the lead through the Flourish programme in schools #ChurchTimes #Features

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

🇺🇸 Haitians whose protected status to remain in the United States has been removed continue to seek support from churches and charities. #ChurchTimes #WorldNews 🌎

🧐 Analysis: Gerrard Winstanley posed questions about land that are still relevant, ✍️ Andrew Bradstock: ‘Despite its being at the root of many of our current problems, land scarcely features in political discussions.’ #ChurchTimes

📙 Review: J. Tyler Brown explores St Paul’s stereotypes — Ethnic Stereotypes and the Letters of Paulby Matthijs den Dulk #BookReview #ChurchTimes

A decision by the Home Office to revoke the sponsor licence that has enabled Lee Abbey to welcome overseas volunteers since its founding in 1946 is being challenged through a judicial review. #ChurchTimes

📉 The Bishop of Manchester, Dr David Walker, has warned that financial shocks “hit hardest for those who have no savings to fall back on”, and that food shortages “load further pressure on to those who are already going hungry”. #ChurchTimes

📚 Education: Diocesan Directors of Education warn that the education system is in crisis, and the Government is not helping, writes Anne Dellar #ChurchTimes #Features

📬 Letters to the Editor — among the topics this week: accountability and C of E bishops; pray for victory in Ukraine; and practical challenges in discerning vocations #Letters #ChurchTimes

📻 Review: Gerry Lynch on the broadcasts from various Manhattan churches in the week of the 9/11 anniversary #radio #review #ChurchTimes

🇺🇸 The diocese of Florida has elected a new Bishop after years of acrimony and legal dispute. #ChurchTimes #WorldNews

📚 Education: A 🎶 pop-music initiative connects schoolchildren with local churches. Ed Beavan reports #Features #ChurchTimes

The National Lottery Heritage Fund has announced that it plans to allocate about £130 million to “places of worship, historic ships, and museum collections” over the next three years. #ChurchTimes

💭 Viewpoint with Andrew Brown (@seatrout.bsky.social): ‘There is quite a large constituency for social conservativsm, but they’re almost all the immigrant families whom many Reform UK voters would rather see deported’ #ChurchTimes #Viewpoint

🎶 Royal School of Church Music Awards #ChurchTimes

✏️ Leader Comment: ‘There was a sense that the strikes had changed the world for ever’ #ChurchTimes

Parish-church choirs are among the beneficiaries of the £438,955 awarded by the Cathedral Music Trust this year. #ChurchNews #ChurchTimes

📘 Review: Richard Greatrex reads reflections that followed the Covid lockdowns — Lost in the Forest by Colin Heber-Percy #BookReview #ChurchTimes

The Archbishop of Cape Town 🇿🇦, Dr Thabo Makgoba, has said that he is “deeply disturbed” by the detention of the Rt Revd Trevor Mwamba, who was Bishop of Botswana 🇧🇼 from 2005 to 2013. #ChurchTimes #WorldNews 🌍

‘While the majority of the clergy I mix with appear to have left-liberal sympathies, it is less true of the laity’ ✍️ Angela Tilby #Comment #ChurchTimes