COMMENT / The Rt Revd Libby Lane, Bishop of Stockport on Towards a Safer Church: resources for prayer and reflection in worship

Churches offering services from the Book of Common Prayer are seeing unprecedented engagement with hundreds choosing to ‘tune in’ to more traditional offerings. 

A prayer to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Stephen Lawrence Day.

The Church of England's Chief Education Officer, Revd Canon Nigel Genders, discusses the new guidance for collective worship in Church of England schools.

Ascension Church in Newham, East London, started a food bank within days of the lockdown which now serves around 100 people a week, and is growing

St Mark’s Church, Broomhill hosted a glorious celebration of holy Communion on the evening of Ascension Day, during which ten adults were confirmed.

Since the government announced that public worship in churches could restart after more than three months of lockdown, churches have been taking innovative steps to help keep their congregations as safe as possible:

The churches of St Peter’s and St Philip’s in Highfields and Evington in Leicester began livestreaming services on Facebook and YouTube from the start of the first lockdown last year.

Prayer services dating back to the early days of Christianity have enjoyed a big revival at a Middlesex church during the pandemic.

An online Community of Prayer is to be launched after a cathedral saw digital worship numbers soar after Covid-19 restrictions came into force.