Child poverty is “not just an issue of economics, but a crisis of human dignity and a moral challenge to the kind of society we wish to build”, the Bishop of Peterborough, the Rt Revd Debbie Sellin, has said.

Speaking during a House of Lords debate last week on the Government’s Child Poverty Strategy, Bishop Sellin referred to research from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation that “food is now the most common essential that low-income households are going without.”

A C of E primary school near Daventry had set up a community larder, she said, “providing affordable food to families struggling to make ends meet, along with ensuring that all children [have] a good breakfast each morning. Volunteer groups work hard to bring isolated families back into community life, but they find their efforts stifled by lack of investment in infrastructure.”

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Child poverty is ‘a crisis of human dignity’ and a ‘moral challenge’ https://t.co/05zMjJPM8x

— Church Times (@ChurchTimes) June 23, 2026

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Young working-class men are significantly less happy & hopeful than their college-educated peers:

✔️ 1/3 of that "hope gap" traces back to a single variable: the quality of their relationship with their father.

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— Brad Wilcox (@BradWilcoxIFS) June 23, 2026

The Provincial Assembly brings together bishops, clergy, and lay delegates from all dioceses and recognized ministry networks across the province. Its primary purpose is to strengthen the mission of the church and to provide province-wide deliberation and governance, including the ratification of constitutional amendments and canons that have been adopted by the Provincial Council.

This year, Provincial Assembly delegates will discuss the following items:

Title I Amendment – Provincial Constitution & Canons Committee

• Cover Memo-Constitution and Canons Committee
• Concerning the Provincial Constitution and Canons

Title I Amendment – Temporary Ecclesiastical Authority

• Cover Memo to Proposed Changes to Title I (Extraordinary Measure)
• Proposed Changes to Title I (Clean Copy)
• Proposed Changes with Redline from Existing Canons

Title IV Amendments – Disciplinary Canons

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The Rev. Mary Ellen Doran, who has served as the Rector of Trinity, Pinopolis for the past four years, is stepping down and moving, with her husband, Keith, to Greenville. In a note to the congregation (sent in April), she wrote, “Over the past few months, Keith and I have been praying and seeking guidance from the Lord as to our next steps. I have been reminded of the words of Ecclesiastes 3:1, ‘For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.’ With his recent retirement, and a number of other events in our lives, we have recently purchased a home in Greenville and will be relocating sometime between the middle and end of June.” Rather than retiring, MaryEllen is “taking some time to be quiet, and to wait upon the Lord for the next ministry he has for her.” Trinity has begun the search process. Please keep the Dorans and the parish in your prayers during this time of transition.

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The Latest Edition of the #Anglican Diocese of #SouthCarolina Enewsletter https://t.co/Or0HM9qESb 'The Rev. Mary Ellen Doran, who has served as the Rector of Trinity, Pinopolis for the past four years, is stepping down and moving, with her husband, Keith, to Greenville' [Diocesan… pic.twitter.com/fGjaHbzEFg

— Kendall Harmon (@KendallHarmon6) June 23, 2026

Heavenly Father, who bestowed such grace upon your servant Æthelthryth that she gave herself fully to a life of prayer and devoted service: grant that we, like her, may so live our lives on earth seeking your kingdom, that by your guiding we may be joined to the glorious fellowship of your saints in light; through Jesus Christ our Lord who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns forever and ever. Amen.

June 23: Feast of Æthelthryth (†679), virgin. Queen of the Northumbrians, then nun at Coludaesburg (Coldingham) and finally founder-abbess of the double monastery at Ely, where her shrine became a place of pilgrimage. She died of a neck tumour. Her sister Sexburg succeeded her. pic.twitter.com/S73LcaHQrm

— North Ages (@NorthAges) June 23, 2026

Most loving Father, who willest us to give thanks for all things, to dread nothing but the loss of thee, and to cast all our care on thee who carest for us: Preserve us from faithless fears and worldly anxieties, and grant that no clouds of this mortal life may hide from us the light of that love which is immortal, and which thou hast manifested unto us in thy Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

The Lord reigns; let the earth rejoice; let the many coastlands be glad! Clouds and thick darkness are round about him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne. Fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries round about. His lightnings lighten the world; the earth sees and trembles. The mountains melt like wax before the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth. The heavens proclaim his righteousness; and all the peoples behold his glory.

–Psalm 97:1-6