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Here are the ALL EDITORIAL files for July 2018. You can download them as a .doc  or  .txt  file containing all the editorial articles for this month.

News Church of England brings prayers to millions with Alexa India –  7th State passes anti-conversion law Visit the Archbishops’ websites Salvation Army helps victims of modern slavery Christian Aid condemns violations in Nicaragua New hub for the waterways chaplaincy Sea Sunday is 8th July – buy some yellow wellington boots! What happened when one...

Looking at Your Church (all articles)  Talking Jesus The Church of England is facing a serious shortage – of church organists Is the Church biased against northern accents? Ten Years of Book Sales The Windrush Generation at worship Fixed Odds Betting Terminals: £2 maximum stake is ‘right decision’, says bishop What problems do ministers have...

Church of England brings prayers to millions with Alexa The Church of England is launching an Alexa skill, enabling users to ask the Church of England for prayers, explanations of the Christian faith and where to find their nearest church for local events and services based on their location. Daily prayer resources are central to...

India –  7th State passes anti-conversion law A seventh state in India has become the latest to pass an anti-conversion law, which Christians say will be used by right-wing Hindu nationalists to persecute Christians. The new law requires clergy who lead a person to Christ to give one month’s notice before doing so, which will...

Talking Jesus Together we can make a huge impact on our nation… one by one…. amongst our friends and family as we follow the call of Jesus to share our faith! Are you up for the challenge? Talking Jesus – The Course includes six practical, video-based teaching sessions with inspirational testimonies to give real-life examples...

Salvation Army helps victims of modern slavery The Salvation Army marks an anniversary this month. It was in July 2011 that it was appointed to be lead agency in England and Wales for coordinating and managing the delivery of specialist support services to the adult victims of Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking. The Salvation Army’s...

Visit the Archbishops’ websites Have you yet visited the two new websites for the Archbishops of Canterbury and York? They were launched recently in order to promote their work and give regular updates and news.  Following the same design as the CofE’s main site, they have a mobile-friendly layout, and an emphasis on images and...

The Church of England is facing a serious shortage – of church organists Be very, very nice to your church organist, and don’t upset them, because they are becoming somewhat of an endangered species in the Church of England. In fact, so many churches now have organs, but no organists, that nearly one in three...

Is the Church biased against northern accents? Is it harder to become a vicar if you were brought up in the north of England?  At least one CofE bishop thinks so. The Bishop of Burnley, the Rt Revd Philip North, has said that selection boards favour well-spoken middle-class candidates over working-class candidates.  And he said...

Christian Aid condemns violations in Nicaragua Christian Aid has condemned the recent human rights violations in Nicaragua and welcomed the preliminary findings of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). The commission’s preliminary investigations found evidence of torture, arbitrary arrests and censorship of the press. The report also confirmed 76 deaths, more than 800 injured...

Ten Years of Book Sales In 2017 there were £22 million worth of religious books sold in the UK, some 2.5 million copies. This was 1.4% of the total sales of books in the UK in 2017. The largest growth area was in religious but non-Christian book, because the Oxford University Press published its translation...