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State schools need support to improve music provision, Choir Schools" Association hears
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (933+ words) Friday 15 May 2026 Church urged to do more to enrich the curriculum, including wider access'to choral music Choristers from Christ Church, Oxford, sing at the CSA conference this month A PLEA for wider access to choral music was heard at the…...
Supportive woodworking space in Carlisle reopens in city location
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (600+ words) Friday 15 May 2026 Community Shed is part of Restore, a charity that has Christian foundations Activities at the Community Shed in October 2025 A WOODWORKING space in Carlisle, which provides support if people ask for it, is thriving in a new location…...
Book review: Tell these Stones to Become Bread: Church as negative work by Edda Wolff
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (501+ words) Friday 15 May 2026 Accentuating the negative, but in a good way, says John Saxbee of this ecclesiologist It has proved to be something of a Petri dish for the inspiration and testing of her distinctive apophatic ecclesiology, which offers serious challenges…...
Pick your refreshments ethically, churches told
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (423+ words) Friday 15 May 2026 Respondants were asked whether their church took ethical issues into account when food or drink was served at events TOO few churches are addressing ethical concerns about the food system, says a survey from Green Christian, which urges…...
Privileged place of faith in Northern Ireland schools "under threat" Irish Synod hears
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (461+ words) Friday 15 May 2026 Nine out of ten teachers (91 per cent) experiencing moderate to high levels of burnout, research suggests EDUCATION in Northern Ireland has largely become "a political football" for lack of funding, a Board of Education report put before the…...
Viewpoint with Andrew Brown: Fletcher trial reveals capacity for self-deception
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (572+ words) Friday 15 May 2026 "Augustine's reasoning is'an example of how easy it becomes to prove that other people's sufferings serve God's purpose, once we set our minds to it' A fresco depicting St Augustine in the Collegiate Church of San Gimignano, Italy…...
Art review: Picasso's Biblical Roots (Burgos Cathedral, Spain)
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (528+ words) Friday 15 May 2026 Susan Gray visits the Picasso exhibition in Burgos Cathedral Located in the cloisters, the new gallery provides the level of security and climate control for Burgos to become a venue for high-level exhibitions, offering the conditions necessary to…...
Book review: The Cambridge Companion to the Book of Isaiah, edited by Christopher B. Hays
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (555+ words) Friday 15 May 2026 Robin Gill considers the complex authorship and contradictions of Isaiah THE editor teaching at Fuller Theological Seminary and other contributors at Trinity Evangelical School of Divinity and the even more conservative Wheaton College, my expectations for this Cambridge…...
Diocese of Manchester urged to save 600-seater Victorian church
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (470+ words) Friday 15 May 2026 Heritage groups ask for'St John the Evangelist, Crawshawbooth, to be added to the World Monuments Fund's 2027 watch list HERITAGE groups have nominated a once-imposing 600-seater Victorian church for inclusion on a global at-risk list, and urged the diocese…...
Theologians have long been aware the universe is unfathomably large" " exploring space and faith
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (579+ words) Friday 15 May 2026 The vastness of space has prompted reflections on God for centuries, says'Andrew Davison Earthset seen through the Orion spacecraft window during Artemis II lunar flyby. Australia can be seen, surrounded by clouds THE journey from Philadelphia to San…...