O King and Judge of the nations: We remember before you with grateful hearts the men and women of our armed forces, who in the day of decision ventured much for the liberties we now enjoy; grant that we may not rest until all the people of this land share the benefits of true freedom and gladly accept its disciplines; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, now and for ever.

Today, 11 November, many across the Anglican Communion mark a day of remembrance.It is a day to remember those who lost their lives in war and conflict, and all whose lives have been forever changed by violence, suffering and loss. It is also a time to hold in prayer those who mourn loved ones, those who carry the physical and emotional wounds of war and communities still living amid conflict and displacement.Remembering the sacrifices of the past, we pray for a world shaped by peace, justice and reconciliation.Let us pray:God of peace, comfort those who grieve, bring healing to those who suffer and guide the nations of the world towards understanding, compassion and lasting peace. Give those with influence the wisdom learned from the struggles of past generations and the vision to pursue harmony.Amen.#Anglicans

— Anglican Communion (@AnglicanWorld) November 11, 2026

Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.”

So he told them this parable: “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ”˜Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost.’ Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

“Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it? And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ”˜Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I had lost.’ Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

–Luke 15:1-10

Een beetje mist en een opkomende zon kan mooie plaatjes geven. Fijne woensdag😀 #zonsopkomst #mist https://t.co/v4nkCjMSHp

— Tjark Dieterman (@DietermanTjark) November 11, 2026

‘Once again, remember that we are praying to our heavenly father. He is not too busy to care, and he is not too impotent to help. I think of the times my young kids have said, “dad, don’t let my head go underwater.“ “Dad don’t leave me in the store by myself.“ “Dad, you’ll sit next to me on the plane, right?“ I love requests like that. They honor me as a father. They are not too hard for me and it brings me to light to guide and to guard my children. how much more does your heavenly father love to guard and to guide you?

–Kevin Deyoung, The Lord’s Prayer (Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway, 2022), p.88, quoted by yours truly in the sermon posted below

The Lord’s Prayer Teaches Us How to Pray Every Other Prayer | Kevin DeYoung https://t.co/mKali2xTAE https://t.co/jRZbfxjSji

— J. Warner Wallace (@jwarnerwallace) April 11, 2023

The appointment of the first female Dean of Exeter Cathedral has been announced by Downing Street.

The Very Reverend Arwen Mary Folkes, currently Vicar of St Mary-the-Virgin in Eastbourne, is due to start in her new role in Devon on 9 May 2027.

Folkes was born in Barnstaple in North Devon and baptised in Bideford, before growing up at the Lizard Lighthouse in Cornwall, where her father was one of the last live-in lighthouse keepers for Trinity House.

She said: “It seems I have been entrusted with a new lighthouse, and a rather bigger one this time.”

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First female Dean of 970-year-old cathedral https://t.co/7gElus9usu

— BBC South West (@BBCSpotlight) November 10, 2026

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Not knowing, therefore, what he was bound to think concerning the incarnation of the Word of God, and not wishing to gain the light of knowledge by researches through the length and breadth of the Holy Scriptures, he might at least have listened attentively to that general and uniform confession, whereby the whole body of the faithful confess that they believe in God the Father Almighty, and in Jesus Christ, His only Son , our Lord, who was born of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary. By which three statements the devices of almost all heretics are overthrown. For not only is God believed to be both Almighty and the Father, but the Son is shown to be co-eternal with Him, differing in nothing from the Father because He is God from God , Almighty from Almighty, and being born from the Eternal one is co-eternal with Him; not later in point of time, not lower in power, not unlike in glory, not divided in essence: but at the same time the only begotten of the eternal Father was born eternal of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary. And this nativity which took place in time took nothing from, and added nothing to that divine and eternal birth, but expended itself wholly on the restoration of man who had been deceived : in order that he might both vanquish death and overthrow by his strength , the Devil who possessed the power of death. For we should not now be able to overcome the author of sin and death unless He took our nature on Him and made it His own, whom neither sin could pollute nor death retain. Doubtless then, He was conceived of the Holy Spirit within the womb of His Virgin Mother, who brought Him forth without the loss of her virginity, even as she conceived Him without its loss.

But if he could not draw a rightful understanding (of the matter) from this pure source of the Christian belief, because he had darkened the brightness of the clear truth by a veil of blindness peculiar to himself, he might have submitted himself to the teaching of the Gospels. And when Matthew speaks of the Book of the Generation of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham Matthew 1:1, he might have also sought out the instruction afforded by the statements of the Apostles. And reading in the Epistle to the Romans, Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called an Apostle, separated unto the Gospel of God, which He had promised before by His prophets in the Holy Scripture concerning His son, who was made unto Him of the seed of David after the flesh Romans 1:1-3, he might have bestowed a loyal carefulness upon the pages of the prophets. And finding the promise of God who says to Abraham, In your seed shall all nations be blessed Genesis 12:3, to avoid all doubt as to the reference of this seed, he might have followed the Apostle when He says, To Abraham were the promises made and to his seed. He says not and to seeds, as if in many, but as it in one, and to your seed which is Christ Galatians 3:16 . Isaiah’s prophecy also he might have grasped by a closer attention to what he says, Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a Son and they shall call His name Immanuel, which is interpreted God with us. And the same prophet’s words he might have read faithfully. A child is born to us, a Son is given to us, whose power is upon His shoulder, and they shall call His name the Angel of the Great Counsel, Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Prince of Peace, the Father of the age to come. And then he would not speak so erroneously as to say that the Word became flesh in such a way that Christ, born of the Virgin’s womb, had the form of man, but had not the reality of His mother’s body. Or is it possible that he thought our Lord Jesus Christ was not of our nature for this reason, that the angel, who was sent to the blessed Mary ever Virgin, says, The Holy Ghost shall come upon you and the power of the Most High shall overshadow you: and therefore that Holy Thing also that shall be born of you shall be called the Son of God Luke 1:35, on the supposition that as the conception of the Virgin was a Divine act, the flesh of the conceived did not partake of the conceiver’s nature? But that birth so uniquely wondrous and so wondrously unique, is not to be understood in such wise that the properties of His kind were removed through the novelty of His creation. For though the Holy Spirit imparted fertility to the Virgin, yet a real body was received from her body; and, Wisdom building her a house Proverbs 9:1, the Word became flesh and dwelt in us , that is, in that flesh which he took from man and which he quickened with the breath of a higher life.

–Letter 28.II

"Christian, recognize your dignity and, now that you share in God’s own nature, do not return to your former base condition by sinning," Pope Saint Leo the Great (400 – 461). More: https://t.co/v405FCTIof https://t.co/oNhW7wg4XU

— Bishop Earl Boyea (@BishopBoyea) November 10, 2026

O Lord our God, grant that thy Church, following the teaching of thy servant Leo of Rome, may hold fast the great mystery of our redemption, and adore the one Christ, true God and true Man, neither divided from our human nature nor separate from thy divine Being; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.

St. Pope Leo the Great (c. 400–461) led the Church from 440 to 461. A brilliant theologian and defender of Christian doctrine, he strengthened papal authority and famously confronted Attila the Hun. He is honored as a Doctor of the Church. https://t.co/bc1tCbY6CO

— Friar Mario Conte (@FriarMario) November 10, 2026

O God, whose blessed Son came into the world that he might destroy the works of the devil and make us children of God and heirs of eternal life: Grant that, having this hope, we may purify ourselves as he is pure; that, when he comes again with power and great glory, we may be made like him in his eternal and glorious kingdom; where he lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Is it a cathedral? Is it in a city? No – it’s a church in the town of Beverley. And what a church! Its glorious Gothic west front simply sings✨. I’ve added this view to my Atelier: https://t.co/UEqnLHTOA6 https://t.co/gt1BvnjaBs

— Andy Marshall 📸 (@fotofacade) November 10, 2026

After this I heard what seemed to be the loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, crying, “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, for his judgments are true and just; he has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication, and he has avenged on her the blood of his servants.” Once more they cried, “Hallelujah! The smoke from her goes up for ever and ever.” And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who is seated on the throne, saying, “Amen. Hallelujah!” And from the throne came a voice crying, “Praise our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, small and great.”

Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like the sound of many waters and like the sound of mighty thunderpeals, crying, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns. Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready; it was granted her to be clothed with fine linen, bright and pure” –for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.

And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are true words of God.” Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brethren who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God.” For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

–Revelation 19:1-10

Early Morning Light. 3°C after a slight frost. Fieldfare. https://t.co/Ksj29KsD6T

— Yorkshire Wolds Weather (@WeatherWolds) November 10, 2026

Maternity care needs more attention from the leadership of the Church of England, the midwife leading numerous NHS inquiries has said.

Since Donna Ockenden was first appointed to chair an independent review of maternity services at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust in 2016, she has been called upon to lead inquiries at Nottingham, Leeds, and Sussex.

The inquiry at Nottingham University Hospital Trust — the largest of its kind in NHS history — found that more than 500 mothers and babies suffered potentially avoidable harm, or died, between 2012 and 2025.

The House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee has described England’s maternity services as being “in a state of crisis”. A national review that ran from 2022 to 2024 found that poor care had become normalised.

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🤰Maternity care needs more attention from the leadership of the Church of England, the midwife leading numerous NHS inquiries has said. #ChurchTimes #Maternity #Healthcare https://t.co/5UCif4O4Js

— Church Times (@ChurchTimes) November 6, 2026

The New York Times feature marking the band’s 50th anniversary — the hook for this week’s “Crossroads” podcast — starts with U2 returning to Mount Temple to celebrate on the stage where the quartet did one of its first gigs. The lengthy interview: “50 Years In, What’s the Point of U2? Bono and the Edge Have Answers.”

God showed up very early in the Times interview. David Marchese asked this basic question: “When you say there are ideas that you want to be in the mainstream, what are they?” Bono replied:

The metaphysical thing, the gospel side of U2 — that was only allowed in rock ’n’ roll if you were Black. You can’t be white people talking about God, because generally white people who talk about God make our audience very nervous, you know? But not in the Black church in America. Coming to the United States, we’d just seen those televangelists, and we were like, Wow, these people are in deep trouble. Then you walk into a Black church and you hear the abandonment of the singing and that feeling — it’s fervor, but not freaky fervor. So being able to sing songs of faith and devotion and songs of doubt, to put the gospel with the blues, which is rock ’n’ roll.

That leads to this follow-up: “You said that talking about God in your music can be a little uncomfortable for your audience, but I would argue that U2’s religious impulse is hugely important to your audience. It’s a big part of why people feel so connected to the band.” The Edge responded:

I mean, yes, but we weren’t seeing it as a selling point. We were seeing it as the thing we have to speak about because it’s where we’re coming from. But people have said that we’re the band that people who don’t know that they believe in God like. It’s in the work in such a natural way. There’s no polemic there. It’s just our search, our inquiry. And it involves so much doubt. It has to, I think. Because if it’s not dogma, then it’s constantly in flux. I would say I’m agnostic about half of the week, and then the rest of the week I’ve got an incredibly strong faith. But it’s always changing, ready to be upgraded.

A “selling point”? This sounded rather familiar to me, for some obvious reasons….

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So, @U2 has carried on for 50 years. Guess what? The big Qs in a long @NYTimes piece are the same Qs Bono and Co. faced in 1982. How do I know that? I was there and asked the Qs. @ActonInstitute @amsacramone @GetReligion @scottderrickson @Joeinblackhttps://t.co/sv5PVN9ezJ https://t.co/kG80vY3Wl8

— Terry Mattingly (@tweetmattingly) November 6, 2026

The central thesis of his new book, Rethinking Christianity, is that what the likes of Ash heard is absolutely correct. The sea of faith around these islands is rising. “I am seeing,” he tells me, “a growth in young people wanting to talk about Christianity. Others have seen it, but right now no one really wants to emphasise it. It is probably best just to let it happen.”

The burnt fingers at the Bible Society, coupled with a still extant British reluctance to talk about Christianity – “We don’t do God”, as Alastair Campbell once put it, on behalf of Tony Blair – appear to have warned many commentators off. Not McGrath, though. This academic and author, best known as the biographer and champion of CS Lewis – both men were born in Belfast, albeit McGrath’s accent gives no hint of it – likes to step up when others hold back. He was, 20 years ago, the first leading Christian to lock horns in public with Richard Dawkins, following the publication of the evolutionary biologist’s global bestseller, The God Delusion.

In public debates with Dawkins, he dismissed the claims of the “New Atheists” that Christianity was a fraud. Dawkins and his sort, McGrath now says, “were aggressively asserting atheist beliefs, but posing as if they were telling incontestable truths”. In response, McGrath and his wife, Joanna Collicutt, a clinical psychologist and Anglican vicar, published a strong defence of religion titled The Dawkins Delusion. “I probably unwisely allowed myself to have a reasonably high profile,” he reflects.

Dawkins has, in recent weeks, been celebrating the 20th anniversary of The God Delusion, making appearances and writing articles (including in this paper). But the scientist is the deluded one, McGrath suggests. “The New Atheism seems to have tanked. It’s on its way out, because people have seen that it was never really answering the big questions.”

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Theologian Alister McGrath: Christianity is back because it answers the big questions https://t.co/4sDVPgWjTK

— Benedict Rogers 羅傑斯 (@benedictrogers) November 3, 2026

The National Security Agency told organizations that if they couldn’t fix their websites immediately, they should take them offline. Not patch carefully. Not watch for suspicious activity. Pull the plug, according to the NSA’s Oct. 21 advisory.

The flaws were in PHP, the programming language behind most of the world’s websites, and they would let anyone run commands on a server without a password. Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland and the Czech Republic temporarily took down some government sites.

How serious was it? The prime minister of Japan went on X.com to tell her country to get ready to patch. I have spent two decades in this business, including at the Pentagon and now at Vanderbilt University, where my lab specializes in cybersecurity. I have never seen a head of government issue a patch notice like this. It won’t be the last.

Here is what should worry you: This was pretty much the best-case scenario. The flaws were found with the help of artificial-intelligence models, including OpenAI’s, and handled the way we would want. They were reported quietly in August to PHP’s maintainers, who spent two months working with OpenAI and outside security researchers on a fix before releasing it publicly. OpenAI says that, to its knowledge, AI found these flaws before attackers did.

That is luck, not a system….

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AI saves the day—and could bring doom tomorrow. OpenAI identified a bug in the web and reported it. Will the next one be found by bad guys with a Chinese open model? asks Brett Goldstein https://t.co/bo3vtS8SYq

— Wall Street Journal Opinion (@WSJopinion) November 9, 2026

Gracious God, we offer thanks for the lives and work of Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton, and Margery Kempe, hermits and mystics, who, passing through the cloud of unknowing, beheld thy glory. Help us, after their examples, to see thee more clearly and love thee more dearly, in the Name of Jesus Christ our Savior; who with thee and the Holy Spirit livest and reignest, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Ever heard of the 14th century English hermit, Richard Rolle?Richard Rolle was a 14th century English mystic and prolific religious writer. Although he was never canonised, the Church of England commemorates him on 23 January.Regulars at Choral Evensong won’t be surprised to hear that one of Richard Rolle’s earliest mystical experiences occurred while listening to a choir – and he continued to hear music from heaven whenever he chanted the Psalms.He wrote of two other forms of mystical experience: a feeling of physical warmth and a sense of sweetness. His experiences contributed to the medieval practice of affective meditation, initiated by St Anselm of Canterbury, in which Christians imagine the sights, sounds, smells, tastes and textures of events in the Gospels.You can continue reading this fascinating piece by our Librarian, Emma Laws: https://t.co/rcWBekqsxS#ExeterCathedral #YourCathedral

— Exeter Cathedral (@ExeterCathedral) January 23, 2026

Almighty Father,
whose will is to restore all things
in your beloved Son, the King of all:
govern the hearts and minds of those in authority,
and bring the families of the nations,
divided and torn apart by the ravages of sin,
to be subject to his just and gentle rule;
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Amen.

Nahe Deggendorf, das Tor zum Bayrischen Wald. Beim Betrachten des Sonnenunterganges kommt ein Gefühl der Ruhe, der Freiheit und der Verbundenheit mit der Natur auf. https://t.co/0BybtJT5iR

— Mittelfranke (@Rubenbauer16) November 8, 2026

The word of the Lord that came to Joel, the son of Pethu′el:

Hear this, you aged men,
    give ear, all inhabitants of the land!
Has such a thing happened in your days,
    or in the days of your fathers?
Tell your children of it,
    and let your children tell their children,
    and their children another generation.

What the cutting locust left,
    the swarming locust has eaten.
What the swarming locust left,
    the hopping locust has eaten,
and what the hopping locust left,
    the destroying locust has eaten.

Awake, you drunkards, and weep;
    and wail, all you drinkers of wine,
because of the sweet wine,
    for it is cut off from your mouth.
For a nation has come up against my land,
    powerful and without number;
its teeth are lions’ teeth,
    and it has the fangs of a lioness.
It has laid waste my vines,
    and splintered my fig trees;
it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down;
    their branches are made white.

Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth
    for the bridegroom of her youth.
The cereal offering and the drink offering are cut off
    from the house of the Lord.
The priests mourn,
    the ministers of the Lord.
The fields are laid waste,
    the ground mourns;
because the grain is destroyed,
    the wine fails,
    the oil languishes.

Be confounded, O tillers of the soil,
    wail, O vinedressers,
for the wheat and the barley;
    because the harvest of the field has perished.
The vine withers,
    the fig tree languishes.
Pomegranate, palm, and apple,
    all the trees of the field are withered;
and gladness fails
    from the sons of men.

Gird on sackcloth and lament, O priests,
    wail, O ministers of the altar.
Go in, pass the night in sackcloth,
    O ministers of my God!
Because cereal offering and drink offering
    are withheld from the house of your God.

–Joel 1:1-13 

Early morning vibes from Surfside Beach, South Carolina 🌅 #earlymorningvibes @EdPiotrowski @jamiearnoldWMBF @AndrewWMBF @LiamKennyWPDE @jgreenhillwx https://t.co/KkAsxMNeJz

— Cathy Kelley (@catsunrisechick) November 9, 2026

God, our refuge and strength,
bring near the day when wars shall cease
and poverty and pain shall end,
that earth may know the peace of heaven
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.

Never Forget All Veterans. https://t.co/aGd8Y4kFAt

— Historygirl (@janeyellene) November 8, 2026

O sing to the Lord a new song;
sing to the Lord, all the earth!

Sing to the Lord, bless his name;
tell of his salvation from day to day.

Declare his glory among the nations,
his marvelous works among all the peoples!

For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised;
he is to be feared above all gods.

–Psalm 96:1-4

Morning everyone I hope you are well. A wander down the very quiet valley alongside Langstrath Beck. Have a great day.#LakeDistrict https://t.co/UfhlYRo1r5

— Rod Hutchinson (@lakesrhino) November 8, 2026

O Lord our God, who dost call whom thou willest and send them whither thou choosest: We thank thee for sending thy servant Willibrord to be an apostle to the Low Countries, to turn them from the worship of idols to serve thee, the living God; and we entreat thee to preserve us from the temptation to exchange the perfect freedom of thy service for servitude to false gods and to idols of our own devising; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

Nov 7: Feast of Willibrord (†739). Northumbrian who studied at Hrypis (Ripon) and Ráith Máelsigi (Clonmelsh, Ireland). He preached in Frisia and became archbishop of the Frisians in 695. His see was at Utrecht. He founded the monastery of Echternach, Luxembourg, in 697/8. https://t.co/sTw8Fl90t6

— North Ages (@NorthAges) November 7, 2026

O Thou, who art the light of the minds that know thee, the life of the souls that love thee, and the strength of the wills that serve thee; help us so to know thee that we may truly love thee, so to love thee that we may fully serve thee, whom to serve is perfect freedom; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

––Robert W. Rodenmayer, ed., The Pastor’s Prayerbook: Selected and arranged for various occasions (New York: Oxford University Press, 1960)

Happy Saturday! Robins always manage to cheer me up when I see them. There’s something rather special about these little birds, and I know I’m not alone in feeling that way 🧡 https://t.co/zSbbTccZhl

— Michelle Paul (@nature_michelle) November 7, 2026

But thou, terrible art thou!
    Who can stand before thee
    when once thy anger is roused?
From the heavens thou didst utter judgment;
    the earth feared and was still,
when God arose to establish judgment
    to save all the oppressed of the earth.

–Psalm 76:7-9

Morning everyone I hope you are well. A beautiful tranquil morning earlier in the week on Derwentwater with views across to the island and Causey Pike as the backdrop. Have a great day.#LakeDistrict https://t.co/xKXy5jDYbr

— Rod Hutchinson (@lakesrhino) November 7, 2026

The Christian Emergency Network (ReadyUK), which equips churches to respond to major incidents such as severe flooding and terrorist attacks, has issued a practical briefing for churches and congregations on resilience measures, and how to navigate serious disruption with “calm and practical faith”.

It reinforces official warnings on preparedness for serious disruption in the shape of natural disasters, cyber-attacks, or state-sponsored terrorism. The Government’s “Be Ready” campaign is part of a “national resilience conversation” to raise awareness of emerging risks, particularly in the wake of the summer wildfires, the advance of the winter storm season, the potential impact of the Super El Niño, and growing concern about cyber-attacks — the latest of which disabled freezers in shops all over Europe; and another, a security breach, which meant that 32 government websites had to be taken offline.

The Defence Secretary, Wes Streeting, told BBC1’s Question Time last week that the UK was facing a “greater threat to the country than we certainly have for most, if not all, of my lifetime”. The government checklist includes advice on food and water supplies to last for 72 hours; on light and warmth, communications and information, money and documents, and medical supplies.

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The Christian Emergency Network (ReadyUK) 🚨 has issued a practical briefing for churches and congregations on resilience measures, and how to navigate serious disruption with “calm and practical faith”. #ChurchTimes #ChurchNews https://t.co/bbTWr5zZwH

— Church Times (@ChurchTimes) November 6, 2026

It was epochal and marks a new era in our political history. And for once everyone rushed to name clearly what happened.

The morning after the 2026 midterm elections, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was searingly blunt. For the Republican Party it was “close to an extinction level event.” Its effects will “reverberate for the next decade or more.”

“It was a Watergate-level repudiation,” said Ted Cruz, soon to be Texas’ lone Republican senator, on a podcast.

Ronna McDaniel, Republican National Committee chairman in the first Trump term, told Fox News on Wednesday the election wasn’t only a Democratic wave, it was “a Republican rebellion.”

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Peggy Noonan, the Reagan speechwriter who has spent decades as the Wall Street Journal’s keeper of the old Republican flame, has written the GOP’s obituary. Her verdict: Trump is the author of the ruin.It wasn’t the war alone, she argues. It was the prices. The tariffs. Above all, the corruption, showy and shameless: crypto, pardons, federal contracts for his sons’ companies. Then came the decadence. Three days before the election, Trump threw a jungle-themed Halloween party with a caviar bar while Americans outside the gates added up their grocery receipts.Ron DeSantis called Tuesday’s results “close to an extinction level event” for his party. Trump’s response: sign a ballroom beam, declare his office a national monument, and blame Fox’s polls.Noonan has a line for that: “Please. It was you, Fredo.” When a Reagan speechwriter is quoting The Godfather at you, the party is over.https://t.co/Gptx4aHDHV

— Bucky (@BuckyNoseBest) November 6, 2026

War-battered Ukraine risks a demographic collapse. Births in Ukraine are falling, in part because there are fewer adults. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022 the population inside government-controlled territory has fallen from about 37m to 27m-28m…. Around 3m-5m Ukrainians now live under Russian occupation, and millions more have emigrated.

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, puts combat deaths at over 50,000; an independent estimate is closer to 150,000. Thousands of civilians have been killed, and Russia has deported over 20,000 children to Russify them. Wartime, moreover, is not good for starting families. The fertility rate has dropped from 1.2 children per woman in 2020 to 0.8-0.9, lower than any big country but South Korea. The replacement rate, needed to keep the population stable, is 2.1. In the first half of 2026 deaths outnumbered births by more than three to one.

Ukraine’s birth rate has lagged behind the mortality rate every year since independence in 1991, when the country (including Crimea and Donbas) had about 52m inhabitants. The war has turned that gap into a chasm. Russia’s population is getting smaller too, but Ukraine’s predicament is far worse. For a country under attack by its imperial neighbour, a demographic collapse is an existential worry.

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Ukraine’s birth rate has lagged behind the mortality rate every year since independence in 1991. We explain why the war has turned that gap into a chasm https://t.co/59IIitfQ2O

— The Economist (@TheEconomist) November 6, 2026

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Working with his Rugby contemporary R. H. Tawney, the seminal Labour thinker, and William Beveridge, the architect of the welfare reforms which sought to banish the five giants of want, idleness, squalor, ignorance and disease, Temple’s book Christianity and Social Order, published in 1942, provided a challenging theological gloss to this vision: “. . . there is no hope of establishing a more Christian social order except through the labour and sacrifice of those in whom the Spirit of Christ is active, and that the first necessity for progress is more and better Christians taking full responsibility as citizens for the political, social and economic system under which they and their fellows live.”

After Temple’s death at the age of 63 after being Archbishop of Canterbury for only 30 months, Bishop Barry of Southwell asked angrily in The Spectator: “Is the Church so rich in prophets that it can afford to squander the gifts of God?” A contrasting view, expressed by Hensley Henson, was that he died just in time “for he had passed away while the streams of opinion in Church and State, of which he became the outstanding symbol and exponent, were at flood, and escaped the experience of their inevitable ebb”.

Although a much different world than that of 60 years ago, the weight of Temple’s greatness is still felt. Once described as “a man so broad, to some he seem’d to be Not one, but all Mankind in Effigy”, his wide informed vision checks our growing narrowness and self-obsession, his realism our Utopian perfectionism, his generosity of heart a worthy riposte to the mood of cynicism and anger epitomising the age and his statesmanship a powerful reminder of what it is to serve as the national church.

Our task with this world is to convert it. Its need can be met only by the shattering impact upon its self-sufficiency and arrogance by the Son of God, crucified, risen and ascended, pouring forth that explosive and disruptive energy which is the Holy Ghost! –William Temple https://t.co/VHYv0IQauO

— Dave Langille (@cdnusboy) June 1, 2023

O God of light and love, who illumined thy Church through the witness of thy servant William Temple: Inspire us, we pray, by his teaching and example, that we may rejoice with courage, confidence and faith in the Word made flesh, and may be led to establish that city which has justice for its foundation and love for its law; through Jesus Christ, the light of the world, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

“When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don’t, they don’t.” William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury 1942-44, remembered here and around the country today. https://t.co/sttRYctN9g

— Lambeth Palace (@lambethpalace) November 6, 2019

O Lord and Father, to whom alone the debtors in ten thousand talents can come with hope of mercy: Have mercy upon us, O Lord, who have aught to repay; forgive us all the debt, forgive us all our sins, and make us merciful to others; for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord.

The Autumnal colours of Lakeland https://t.co/Hf59uA2NOw

— Graeme Peacock (@GraemePeacock1) November 6, 2026

Whom have I in heaven but thee?
    And there is nothing upon earth that I desire besides thee.
My flesh and my heart may fail,
    but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.

For lo, those who are far from thee shall perish;
    thou dost put an end to those who are false to thee.
But for me it is good to be near God;
    I have made the Lord God my refuge,
    that I may tell of all thy works.

–Psalm 73:25-28

Good morning. It’s Friday! All those lovely colours of Autumn. View towards the city centre from Epping Walk Bridge 🍂 #Manchester https://t.co/prAPiqZ7JT

— Monica NAUGHTON Crimmins (@MonicaCrimmins) November 6, 2026

Is generosity in Britain a thing of the past? A report from the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), UK Giving Report 2026, published in March, suggests that both donation levels and the number of people giving are falling.

In 2025, the British public donated an estimated £14 billion, a 9.1-per-cent decrease from £15.4 billion in 2024 — the first decrease in giving since 2021, the report states. The decrease is driven by lower average donations in 2025 of £65, down from £72 in 2024. The report’s findings are based on responses from 12,913 over-16s.

Nevertheless, research specifically into the trends of legacy giving suggests a more positive outlook. The director of Remember A Charity, Lucinda Frostick, says that research shows “a really slow, steady, positive increase in the proportion of people choosing to leave a gift in their will”.

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🎗️ As global economic conditions hit charitable giving, the significance of legacies for charities and churches needs to be better understood — and talked about, ✍️ Amelia Braddick #Features #ChurchTimes https://t.co/licTByPzro

— Church Times (@ChurchTimes) November 5, 2026

Russia agreed to supply Iran with 90 launchers for the advanced guided missiles widely used by its forces in Ukraine, a sign of Moscow’s military support for Tehran despite the demands of its own sputtering war effort.

A production schedule for 2024 and 2025 from a major Russian defence manufacturer, seen by the FT, details an export order for the helicopter-mounted launchers to a buyer identified by a code name used in Russian defence documents to refer to Iran. The order, which has not been previously reported, shows how the two allies have strengthened their military ties since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Western intelligence officials say Russia and Iran have further deepened their partnership during the war in the Middle East this year, despite US President Donald Trump’s recent claims that Moscow was doing “very little, if anything” to help the Islamic republic. 

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Russia deepened Iran support with missile launcher deal https://t.co/10SHf9wy0b

— Financial Times (@FT) November 5, 2026