The Church of England's General Synod will debate gay marriages after 100 priests have signed a letter demanding the right to conduct them in their churches.

Three bishops will this week lead calls for the Church of England to make a public statement standing up for the right of Christians to wear a cross.

John Sentamu, the Bishop of York, is our cover boy this week. It's the Church of England Synod next week, word is that Rowan Williams will be standing down soon, and Rod Liddle is backing Sentamu as his successor. When planning the headline, I thought about calling him the 'British Obama'. We didn't use this, as it's not a compliment — but if Britain is to have a fig...

The dispute in the Church of England over welfare reform intensified last night as the former Archbishop of Canterbury was dismissed as a "Thatcherite yesterday's man" by a prominent cleric.

The above picture is of the Church of Jesus Christ the Adolescent, which is found on the top of a hill in Nazareth in Israel. It presumably gets its name from the fact that Jesus Christ did apparently spend his teenage years in Nazareth. I post the picture merely because everyone I have shown the picture too so far has laughed at the name. Thinking about it more, though, asking people to complete ...

There might be worse things for Newt Gingrich than the 20-point lead the Mittmeister seems to have built up in Florida, courtesy of ad expenditure in the region of $6.8 million. But there surely aren't sadder scenes than this one, according to New York Magazine's John Heilemann - At what was billed as a Hispanic town hall meeting at another church yesterday in Orlando, Gingrich was greeted by row ...

There was standing-room only at Martyrs' Memorial Church in Belfast at a farewell service for the Rev Ian Paisley.

Some Christians I know or read about claim to be concerned about the long-term health of society and the future welfare of generations yet unborn, as well as the current one, and yet all too many of the senior figures in the Church of England, say, make asses of themselves by unthinking repetition of Big Government thinking. Case in point being the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. It is, ...

Welfare rebellion puts focus on law-making role for church men

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey criticises Church of England bishops who opposed the government's cap on benefits in the House of Lords.