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FEATURE / Head of digital, Adrian Harris shares about the first full year of digital evangelism at General Synod in February 2018.
FEATURE / On Saturday afternoon, around and during the England football match (!), the Digital and Church House Publishing teams updated General Synod on how we’re supporting local churches and encouraging people into worshipping communities.
FEATURE / Latest figures show a 22% increase in people selected to train for the priesthood over the last two years, with a 32% increase in young people.
FEATURE / The Church of England’s digital communications team has trained more than 200 parishes in social media and writing for the web.
Churches are hosting activities from curry nights to community barbecues as part of a summer holiday scheme that is expected to feed more than 1,000 children in one diocese alone.
A vicar has discovered, to his surprise, that he has family links stretching back centuries to the parish where he is now ministering and even to the local castle.
A rural parish has embraced net zero carbon ambitions by installing four air source heat pumps.
Revd Dr Brendan McCarthy, the Church of England's National Adviser on Medical Ethics, Health and Social Care Policy, sets out the Church of England's response to calls for 'doctor assisted dying'
Chichester Cathedral doubles own target for food donations for people in crisis, as churches in the area offer hot food and warm spaces this Christmas.
COMMENT / The Third Church Estates Commissioner on progress since the Cathedrals Working Group report