THE Bishop of Sheffield, Dr Pete Wilcox, is to chair a statutory inquiry into the violence at the coking plant at Orgreave, ...

IT WAS another heatwave and a distinctly heady start to this year’s General Synod in York (11 to 15 July). Members gathered ...

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IN LUKE 11.1-13, Jesus teaches his disciples how to pray. Yet, even before they ask him to teach them, he has already begun ...