🌱 Josephine Gabelman got her hands dirty, she writes for Creationtide: ‘I had been asked to lead an immersive outdoor meditation, and had suggested the theme of rot and renewal.’ #ChurchTimes #Faith

📗 Review: Peter Selby considers a contribution to social and economic thinking — The Common Good Economy by Mariana Mazzucato #BookReview #ChurchTimes

Evangelicals make up almost two-thirds of “practising Christians” in the UK, a new report from the Evangelical Alliance suggests. #ChurchTimes #ChurchNews

📚 Education: Children with complex needs are held back by official get-out clauses, Sarah Lothian hears #Features #ChurchTimes

💬 Caption Competition: Read the latest winner and top entries #ChurchTimes

📕 Review: Paul Handley considers an indictment of today’s life for many children — A British Childhood by Frank Cottrell-Boyce #BookReview #ChurchTimes

Jan McFarlane on the significance of Whitby to her spiritual journey #FaithForHolyPlaces #ChurchTimes

The Consistory Court of the diocese of Oxford has granted a faculty for the exhumation of the cremated remains of Richard Hodgkin, and their reinterment in the grave of his wife, Elizabeth, in the same churchyard. #ChurchTimes

📚 Education: Is AI a threat or an opportunity for young people? #Feature #ChurchTimes

The King 🇬🇧 and the French 🇫🇷 President, Emmanuel Macron, unveiled a replica of the historical Kirkdale sundial, made by York Minster’s team of craftspeople, at the opening of the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition in the British Museum, last week. #ChurchTimes

📚 New books published — this week’s selection: Richard Holloway’s final book; a 40-day journey with Bonhoeffer; and a two-millennia story of Christian art #Books #ChurchTimes

🖼️ This week's cartoon: Church humour from the cartoonist @jamesdfmellor.bsky.social #ChurchTimes

The baptism of 170 people in the sea at Bigbury-on-Sea, in Devon, made Saturday “an extraordinary day”, its organiser, Merlin Kraft, said, after people travelled from all over the UK for the service. #ChurchNews #ChurchTimes

📕 Review: Rachel Mann reads the third in a series on C. S. Lewis’s children’s tales — Signs Among the Stones by Jem Bloomfield #BookReview #ChurchTimes

🎧 Podcast: Alastair Campbell on being a ‘pro-faith atheist’ #ChurchTimes #Podcast

🎨 Art review: Nicholas Cranfield sees the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum #ChurchTimes www.churchtimes.co.uk/artic...

Camilla Harrison is moved by a recent visit to its Marian shrines 🙏 #ChurchTimes #Walsingham

⛪︎ Amid deep concern for the future of the rural church, participants left a Save the Parish conference in Norwich feeling “hopeful”, its organiser said this week. #SaveTheParish #ChurchTimes #ChurchNews

📕 Book review: Being a Disciple in a World Come of Age: A reflection on Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s theology by Hassan Musa #BookReview #ChurchTimes

“Where the attacks of 9/11 showed the very worst of humanity, the hours and days that followed revealed the very best in humanity,” a United States diplomat, Elizabeth Martin-Shukrun, said at an event in London to mark the 25th anniversary. #ChurchTimes