Today's lesson for the bishops: go greener
Church of England bishops should abandon their draughty historic palaces and gas-guzzling cars to counter global warming, one of the world’s most eminent climate scientists said yesterday.
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Religious Affairs
We want women bishops, say C of E members
An overwhelming majority of churchgoers want to see women priests appointed as bishops, according to a new survey that will reopen one of the biggest divisions within the Anglican Church.
Church predicts death of Sunday School
Ewan McGregor started acting there, Carol Smillie was a regular, but John Humphrys says he learnt nothing much.
For more than 200 years Sunday school has been an essential part of growing up for the well-bred British child, like piano lessons and the Girl Guides. Generations of British children spent their Sunday mornings in the company of a stern female and a Bible.
£100m crisis as our cathedrals crumble
An alarming number of England’s ancient cathedrals are crumbling fast, with buckets in the nave to catch rain leaking through the roof, dangerously deteriorating masonry and stinking drains, a Daily Telegraph survey has found.
About Hazel
Hazel Southam is an award-winning journalist who reports on religious affairs, international development and the environment. She has covered four G8 Summits.
She wrote for The Sunday and Daily Telegraph for 10 years. Her work has also appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, The Independent on Sunday, The Daily Mail and The Evening Standard.
Reporting assignments have taken her to places including Bosnia, Zimbabwe, Mongolia, Albania, Nagorno-Karabakh, Senegal and the Arctic Circle.
In the UK, she has also delivered media training to the MOD and leading businesses.
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