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December 18, 2019 in Newsletters

Get US out of this mess, President is urged
FAITH leaders from across the United States came together online on Thursday to pray for President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris on their first full day in office. A service organised by Washington National Cathedral featured leaders ...
New Covid-19 survey: Have you grown to like church better during lockdown?
IF WE have learnt anything since last March, it is that, with Covid-19, nothing stands still. Just when you think you have worked out what is going on, another twist in the tail seems to slide you back to square one. Has lockdown 2021 simply retur...
Hospital chaplains at the core of coronavirus care
THE coronavirus has swept away any idea that chaplains are optional extras or “genteel outsiders”, the president of the College of Healthcare Chaplains, Dr Simon Harrison, has said. “In the first wave of the virus, there was a bit of the ‘Perhaps ...
CDM reform to be delayed for wider consultation
THE group working on reforming the Clergy Discipline Measure (CDM) is to delay proposing changes until the July General Synod meeting at the earliest. The working group, chaired by the Bishop at Lambeth, the Rt Revd Tim Thornton, was originally to...