Church of England national funding for features such as improved broadband and pooled administrative support have given rural parishes a boost.

COMMENT / The Church of England's Chief Education Officer warns that schools must not be run on the same logic as supermarkets, ahead of a symposium at Lambeth Palace.

COMMENT / The Church of England's Chief Education Officer explains what the Church is doing to address challenges for rural schools.

An outdoor prayer service started under lockdown at an Oxfordshire church has attracted more than 100 people and revived interest in a rural church.

'Our hope is that others will catch this vision and be willing to share our mission – to provide homes and build communities where people love to live'

Bishop Guli Francis-Dehqani, the Church of England's Bishop for Housing, looks back on a year since the publication of Coming Home, the report of the Archbishops' Commission on Housing Church and Community.

 

A rural benefice has used YouTube explanatory videos on Christianity filmed in beauty spots to encourage people in their faith during lockdown.

A rural parish has embraced net zero carbon ambitions by installing four air source heat pumps. 

A Devon vicar says the questions around human sexuality, gender and relationships covered by the Church of England’s Living in Love and Faith course are as relevant in her rural parishes as anywhere else.
 

FEATURE / The Church of England’s digital communications team has trained more than 200 parishes in social media and writing for the web.

A church on the edge of the Cotswolds is set to reduce its energy bills after replacing an unreliable oil-fired boiler with electric under-pew heaters, thanks to a grant from the Church of England’s Net Zero Programme.