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We’ve been hiding our light under a bushel for too long

Rev Bryony Taylor
The Church of England has something good to share with people and what's more, people are genuinely looking for it and ...

Marriage and divorce on the rise at 65 and over

Life Events Team
The Office for National Statistics released figures in July 2017 on marriage trends in the UK. It makes interesting reading, read ...

Supporting couples financially

Tom Newbold, Centre for Theology & Community
The average cost of a wedding in the UK is somewhere between £17,000 and £24,000. Estimates differ depending on the ...

Supporting deaf couples and guests with a BSL interpreter

Rev Canon Gill Behenna, the Church of England National Deaf Ministry Adviser
British Sign Language is Britain’s fourth indigenous language, used by Deaf and hearing members of the Deaf community. Deaf people who ...

Yourchurchwedding.org has changed

Suzanne Gray, Projects Officer, Archbishops' Council
Yourchurchwedding.org has been hugely popular ever since its launch, and is now averaging about 54,000 visits a month. In ...

Wedding talk

The Revd Canon Sandra Millar
Recently, I took my first family wedding when my ‘niece-by-marriage’ married in St. Bartholomew’s, Nympsfield, a beautiful listed church in Gloucestershire. It was ...

Warm contacts, wider contacts

The Revd Dr Sandra Millar, Head of Projects & Developments, Archbishops' Council
Every week the Church of England is involved with around 3000 funerals, 2000 baptisms of children under 12 and 1000 ...

Stepping into the unknown

The Revd Canon Sandra Millar, Head of Projects & Developments
Last week I was being royally treated by a diocese somewhere in England. Dire to the pressure of time between ...