Your rapid overview of today’s news and interests.
SPECIAL
Human Sexuality reading list and web links – A resource for General Synod members and others. Click on Parish Support Resources above masthead and then on Articles.
IRELAND
Tallaght hospital gets new chairman – Archbishop Jackson’s nomination
Christmas story can bring light to ‘dark times’ we live in – Bishop of Cashel
Archbishop says Dublin diocese facing crisis
Foodbank opens in Newtownards
GREAT BRITAIN
The Primus and the Pandas – Most Rev David Chillingworth on increasing church attendance
New C of E ethical investment policies: pornography and high interest rate lending
C of E Eco scheme defies government subsidy cuts
WORLD
Christchurch Cathedral dean quits post for city council seat – following clash with bishop?
Pope to visit Cuba in first papal visit in more than a decade
Japanese pastor sues over dismissal following communion dispute
MUSIC AND SERVICES
Cappella Caeciliana in BBC Ulster’s Christmas Concert
Grosvenor’s – Nine Lessons with Carols
Christmas with Saint George’s Singers
TODAY’S BLOG
Retrospect – A Meath churchman, soldier-aviator, businessman and farmer
PRAY2DAY
A thought, a bible text and a prayer – for busy people