📒 Notebook: Mark Oakley on reading, St Columba, prayer, and Sex on the Beach #ChurchTimes

💭 Leader comment: ‘Farming has always been a business of high risk and modest returns, but the current financial squeeze is unprecedented in its speed and scale’ #Comment #ChurchTimes

Alec Hamilton on a 600-year-old sacred well 💧#StHelens #ChurchTimes #Faith

🗞️ From our archive: October 1st, 1926. #ChurchTimes #Archival

📚 New books — This week’s selection: how Christians can learn from other religions; perspectives on Church and Empire; and a guide to Northumberland’s pilgrim routes #Books #ChurchTimes

It was responding to reports that the 📺 Corporation might reduce the number of Sunday-morning religious programmes on local stations #BBC #ChurchTimes

🍽️ Food and hospitality can unite people of different views, says Steve Chalke #ChurchTimes

⛪︎ Multi-sensory space at church allows people who find sensory stimuli difficult to participate in worship #ChurchTimes #ChurchNews

UN 🇺🇳 reports more than 1,000 cases of sexual violence in Ukraine 🇺🇦 since Russia’s 🇷🇺 full-scale invasion #WorldNews #ChurchTimes

➡️ The incumbent of a church in south London which is attended by members of the far-Right group Patriot Platform has spoken of his commitment to keeping its doors “open to everyone — full stop”. #ChurchTimes

📻 Review: Gerry Lynch on particle accelerators, the search for the Higgs boson, and a Radio 3 day spent among lighthouses and music inspired by the sea #ChurchTimes

Among the 🇬🇧 snippets this week: Bishop visits refugee supper club in Islington, and appeal authority appointed for C of E Redress Scheme #ChurchTimes #UKBriefs

📒 Notebook: Sarah Sands (CEO of Hymns Ancient and Modern) on 🎵 hymns, 📚 theological literacy, reading, and 🦶pilgrimage #ChurchTimes #Notebook

📙 Review: Faith in Secular Life by Martyn Percy #ChurchTimes #BookReviews

People gathered at Manchester Cathedral for a Worship Around the World event, which “demonstrated the beauty of intercultural worship”, the intercultural-mission enabler for the Manchester diocese said. #ChurchTimes #ChurchNews

👉 The welfare of workers in the 🚜 rural economy was raised by the Bishop of Hereford, the Rt Revd Richard Jackson, in the House of Lords last week. #ChurchTimes #HouseOfLords #ChurchNews

🇫🇷 The Pope warned Europeans against the “illusion of rearmament”, at the close of a four-day pilgrimage to France which brought huge numbers out on to the streets. #ChurchTimes #RomanCatholic #France

➡️ The General Synod elections are now under way; so candidates’ statements are being analysed to determine their positions on issues likely to arise in the next quinquennium. #ChurchTimes #ChurchNews

⛪︎ Churches are well placed to use their historic wealth 💷 to help turn the tide of climate change 📈 and accelerate the green 🌱 transition, the Christian charity Operation Noah says in a new report, Investing with Purpose. #ChurchTimes

📺 Review: Jayne Manfredi on an American documentary about Mary Magdalene, Christianity and women, and the enduring pleasures of The Great British Bake Off #ChurchTimes #ChurchNews