CHRISTIAN GROUPS have welcomed a call for RBS to become the Green Investment Bank. According to a new report, this would bring 50,000 new ‘green’ jobs a year to Britain. Green campaigners say the billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money caught up in RBS should go towards funding green projects rather than financing “dirty projects”. [...]
Henry Moore [1898-1986], Britain’s greatest-ever sculptor, became globally renowned in the second half of the 20th century as galleries and public authorities worldwide vied to acquire his iconic monumental figures. Most unusually for a sculptor, he won national popularity in Britain itself, as post-1945 rebuilt cities and New Towns set his massive family groups in [...]
SUNDAY has disappeared into the “greyness” of the rest of the week, according to a northern diocesan bishop. As a result not only churchgoers are suffering but the rest of society, says Bishop of Chester Peter Forster. The 60-year-old church leader regrets the situation in a think-piece about holidays and holy days in the August [...]
Vicar, West Leigh St Alban (Portsmouth): to be Team Vicar, Abingdon Christ Church (Oxford).
The Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, today expressed his delight at tomorrow’s entry into force of the international convention banning the manufacture, use and stockpiling of cluster munitions, calling it a “major advance for the global disarmament and humanitarian agendas.” Thirty ratifications were needed to make the pact, which prohibits explosive remnants of war known either as [...]
‘Modern Church’ is to be the new name for the liberal theology society the Modern Churchpeople’s Union. Known as the Modern Churchmen’s Union from the 1920s, it changed its name to Modern Churchpeople’s Union in 1987. At their Annual General Meeting in July 2010 members voted to simplify the name. “We wanted a shorter and [...]
THERE is no doubt about it: had it taken place it would have been a truly sensational trial. But it never even got started. On April 26, 2005, Dean of Ripon Cathedral John Methuen, who died in London last week three weeks short of his 63rd birthday, sat impassively in an ecclesiastical court convened in [...]
A CELEBRATION at a Westminster church will kick-start a 500-day prayer chain culminating at the national day of prayer at Wembley Stadium in September 2011. The London-based arm of Global Day of Prayer (GDOP) has partnered with the Korean revival prayer movement to launch the prayer chain initiative. At the Celebration for the Nations 7pm [...]
60 ml water 45 ml ketchup 40 gms brown sugar 30 ml vinegar 15 ml lemon juice 30 ml Worcestershire sauce 6 gms salt 3 gms dry mustard 3 gms chilli powder 828 gms chicken thighs, skin removed Preheat the oven to 500ºF (260ºC). In a small saucepan over medium heat, stir together the water, [...]
Canon Jonathan Frost was named this morning as the new Suffragan Bishop of Southampton. Currently the Co-ordinating chaplain at the University of Surrey, and Residentiary Canon of Guildford Cathedral, he succeeds the Rt Rev Paul Roger Butler, who was earlier named as the new Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham. A graduate of the universities of [...]
