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Book review: Ethnic Stereotypes and the Letters of Paul: History and reception by Matthijs den Dulk
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (194+ words) Friday 11 September 2026 J. Tyler Brown explores St Paul’s stereotypes Finally, the categorisation of Pauline perspectives on “Gentile sinfulness” as an ethnic stereotype seems to stretch the framework past its natural limits. The author makes Romans 1 the hinge of his opening case,…...
Condemned Long Island church reopens its doors
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (394+ words) Friday 11 September 2026 150-year-old Episcopal church in Riverhead, New York, renovated and reopened as home for ministry to farm workers and Spanish-speaking communities Bishop Provenzano presides at the eucharist in Iglesia San Francisco, Long Island, earlier this month A HISTORIC Long…...
Group of 170 people baptised in sea at Devon beach
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (283+ words) Friday 11 September 2026 Christians and curious attendees travel from across the country for a mass baptism at Bigbury-on-Sea THE baptism of 170 people in the sea at Bigbury-on-Sea, in Devon (right), made Saturday “an extraordinary day”, its organiser, Merlin Kraft, said, after…...
Faith: Change, decay, and new life
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (774+ words) Friday 11 September 2026 Josephine Gabelman got her hands dirty, she writes for Creationtide FRESH from my first year of training for ordination at Ridley Hall, I was on summer placement at Launde Abbey. If you visit this historic retreat centre, hoping…...
US Episcopal Church welcomes first transgender cathedral dean
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (624+ words) Friday 11 September 2026 Micah Cronin, aged 30, installed as Dean of All Saints’ Cathedral, Milwaukee Dean Cronin in All Saints’ Cathedral, Milwaukee, in August THE Episcopal Church in the United States has welcomed its first transgender cathedral dean, the Very Revd Micah…...
Save the Parish conference leaves Norfolk rural churches ‘hopeful’
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (458+ words) Friday 11 September 2026 All Saints’, Thorpe Abbotts, in Norfolk 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. The Bishop of Lynn, Dr Jane…...
Prime Minister’s ‘map’ of faith in action published
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (564+ words) Friday 11 September 2026 Report estimates that 33,000 churches provide 250,000 instances of support each year The launch of the report Heart of the Neighbourhood in the Houses of Parliament on Tuesday A REPORT commissioned by the Prime Minister and championing the “significant yet…...
‘I was probably the only atheist in the room’: Alastair Campbell on Bible studies with Justin Welby
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (924+ words) Thursday 10 September 2026 Tony Blair’s former spin doctor, who once declared ‘We don’t do God,’ talks about his enduring interest in faith. Interview by James Macintyre Alastair Campbell in conversation at the Hay Festival last year ALASTAIR CAMPBELL, who famously told…...
General Synod Digest: Call for Church Commissioners to support 30 by 30 conservation target falls
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (37+ words) The Church Times Friday 31 July 2026 General Synod Digest: Call for Church Commissioners to support 30 by 30 conservation target falls...
Book review: An Enchanted World: The shared religious landscape of late antiquity by Michael L. Satlow
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (198+ words) Friday 17 July 2026 Cally Hammond reads about the enchanted world of late antiquity Satlow, a professor of religious and Jewish studies, pays Christian readers the compliment of expecting them to want to understand themselves as part of a continuum, not as…...