🪏 Bishop of Madhya Kerala 🇮🇳 grows crops on diocesan land, raising about £6,000 a year #ChurchTimes #WorldNews

🗯️ Analysis: Whose interests are served by words of contrition for past wrongs, asks Stephen Cherry #Analysis #ChurchTimes #PublicApologies

In his first public comments for months, the Bishop of Salisbury, the Rt Revd Stephen Lake, has stressed that he has “co-operated fully” with investigations into him by the Church. #ChurchTimes #ChurchNews

🇺🇦 On a recent visit, Hugh Nelson found people determined not to give up, and Christians working to bring healing #Comment #Opinion #ChurchTimes

📙 Review: Sarah Meyrick follows a slightly different cast for another mystery — The Silent Appeal by Janice Hallett #ChurchTimes #BookReview

The theft of a rare book from a Suffolk church will not deter the congregation from welcoming casual visitors to the building, the assistant curate, the Revd Dr Edmund Smith, has said. #Erasmus #ChurchTimes

🇬🇧 Among the UK snippets this week: Closed North Yorks church to be pilgrims’ hostel, and violence making Middlesbrough residents anxious, says priest #ChurchTimes #UKNews

🇺🇦 Religious leaders in Ukraine have urged churches to help obtain to information about tens of thousands of civilians and military personnel registered as missing since the start of Russian 🇷🇺 incursions in 2014. #ChurchTimes

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

📘 Review: Madeleine Davies is riveted by a 1790 tale — The Repentants, by Kate Foster #BookReviews #ChurchTimes

🇳🇵The catastrophe in Nepal compels Lorraine Cavanagh to ask questions about God, intercession, and time #Comment #ChurchTimes

📝 Poet’s Corner: Observing a happy dog inspires Malcolm Guite to contemplate the real meaning of joy @malcolmguite.bsky.social #ChurchTimes

📗 Review: Nick Goulding enjoys a priest-detective’s return — Forgive Us Our Trespasses, by Penny Stephens #BookReviews #ChurchTimes

🎨 Church humour from the cartoonist, @jamesdfmellor.bsky.social #JamesMellor #Cartoon #ChurchTimes

Students from Gordonstoun School have discovered what is thought to be the remains of a medieval Viking church on Swona, an uninhabited Scottish island. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #ChurchTimes

⛪️ In Creationtide, Halvina Saiya finds that gratitude comes with attention #Faith #Features #ChurchTimes

🛌 ‘He found conventional life too complicated and scary. Even in a hostel, he would sleep on the floor rather than on a bed’ ✍️ Angela Tilby #Comment #ChurchTimes

🇵🇱 A parish in Poland plans to require users of its newly reopened 🚙 car park to pay — in 🙏 prayers rather than money. #ChurchTimes #WorldNews

💬 Viewpoint: ‘Anyone trying to break into journalism by reporting on the world rather than having opinions on what other people have reported deserves encouragement’ — Andrew Brown #ChurchTimes #Viewpoint

🏥 In crowded hospital wards and in rural communities where medical professionals are not close to hand, Christian organisations in Bangladesh 🇧🇩 are helping families facing one of the country’s worst outbreaks of measles in years. #ChurchTimes