Key workers are to be celebrated by poets in a new competition founded by a Christian cleaning company that promotes fair pay and dignity at work.

FEATURE / Churches encouraged to take part in a litter pilgrimage to help clean up the local community. 

What does Good Friday commemorate? What happens in churches and cathedrals on Good Friday? Where does the name originate?

Why do churchgoers carry palm crosses? Why will there be processions through towns and cities this Sunday? Why will donkeys be seen in churches and cathedrals this week?

 

A chance conversation between a bakery worker and a Church of England priest after he dropped into a branch of Greggs has led to her baptism.

FEATURES / The Church of England is challenging every minister to commit to having one conversation a month about vocation with someone different from themselves.

Listen to Revd Roxanne Hunte discuss why she's backing the campaign.

Why is Holy Saturday significant? How does the Church commemorate it? What is the Saturday before Easter Day called?

FEATURE / The Church of England is challenging every minister to commit to having one conversation a month about vocation with someone different from themselves.

Listen to the Bishop of Guildford, Andrew Watson, discuss the campaign.

What does it commemorate? What does Maundy mean? Why do Christians wash feet? What is Maundy Money?

 

Church of England bishops spent time at their recent residential meeting in Oxford reflecting on questions of justice, including racial justice.