📖 Sunday‘s Readings: Cally Hammond reflects on the lectionary readings for 25 October #Lectionary #Readings #ChurchTimes

📸 Stories of the week: Portsmouth celebrates 100 years; and art installations in South Carolina, Wells, and London #ChurchTimes #PhotoNews

📘 Review: Graeme Smith reviews the case that Trumpism is not new in the US — Made in America: The dark history that led to Donald Trump by Edward Stourton #ChurchTimes #BookReviews

Anti-Slavery Day falls on Sunday. Tim Wyatt hears how the Church is responding to modern slavery ⛓️‍💥 and how public policy has changed #ChurchTimes #Features

‘The two gas heaters in the parish room are still broken, and we have spent a good deal of time and money not replacing them’, ✍️ Caroline Langton #Comment #Opinion #ChurchTimes

🎧 Podcast review: Azariah France-Williams on Revisionist History, RMC Briefing, and Sacred Slope #ChurchTimes #Podcasts

📗 Review: David Atkinson reads a book that arose from a gym instructor’s request — Universal Love: Surrendering to the God of peace by John Dear #BookReviews #ChurchTimes

🗞️ 100 years ago: October 15th, 1926.

‘The Canadian Premier says that he has come across the Atlantic to emphasize good will, and by good will misunderstanding can be destroyed and even miracles achieved.’ #ChurchTimes #Archive

🌍 News: Among the snippets this week — Lung cancer diagnosed during #Pope’s surgery, and #Nobel Peace Prize 🏆 for South African 🇿🇦 judge #WorldNews #ChurchTimes

⚕️ The new Health Bill’s “ambition to improve care and make better use of resources” was welcomed by the Bishop of Newcastle at its 📃 Second Reading in the House of Lords on Tuesday. #ChurchTimes #ChurchNews

🇦🇲 The Armenian Apostolic Church has urged MPs not to support a government-led “illegal campaign” against it, after a parliamentary commission was set up to investigate its “internal crisis”. #ChurchTimes #ChurchNews

📕 Review: Matthew d’Ancona on the different strands and their interaction — End Times Fascism: And the fight for the living world by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor #BookReviews #ChurchTimes

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

🇬🇧 News: Among the snippets this week: Cottrell concludes his Lord’s Prayer Tour, and Supreme Court hears CPS appeal on Benjamin Field case #UKNews #ChurchNews #ChurchTimes

⚓️ Shanty singers greeted the arriving congregation at Exeter Cathedral on Sunday for what is thought to have been the first ever national Harvest of the Sea celebration #ChurchTimes #ChurchNews

📈 Analysis: Defining Christian nationalism depends significantly on context, ✍️ Nick Spencer #ChurchTimes #Analysis

📚 New titles — This week’s selection: Lent with Julian of Norwich; a commentary for preaching on the Gospel of Mark; and a new edition of a major study of African Christianity #Books #NewTitles #ChurchTimes

Sally Welch reflects on the critical importance of volunteers: ‘Volunteering can also bring rewards, providing those no longer in paid work with a sense of purpose’ #ChurchTimes #Volunteering #Faith

💷 Seventeen churches in the ten per cent most deprived parishes in the country are among the recipients of the first round of the Places of Worship Renewal Fund. #ChurchTimes

🐌 A naturalist and reader in Bedfordshire managed to spot a 6mm snail, Balea sarsii, in the crevices of the north wall of St Margaret’s, Higham Gobion — a discovery made all the more remarkable because the species has never been recorded in the county or in neigh­­bouring Hertfordshire. #ChurchTimes