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The Rochester Muslim Community Circle is holding its iftar potluck at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 15. The potluck is open to the public.

'What we need is an expansive vision of what it means to be English as part of the United Kingdom. It is this that will help us rediscover a national unity'

The Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell Credit:  Tessa Bunney I had hoped to interview the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Stephen Cottrell in person. But this was early March, the kids weren’t back at school and travel restrictions had yet to be lifted. I protested that, as this was official work business, it was entirely possible to do a socially distanced meeting that would stay well within the rules. The Primate of England would not be moved. And so we Zoomed instead. It’s hard not to see this overzealous interpretation of Covid restrictions as emblematic of the problems the Chur...

The Archbishop of York, the Most Rev Stephen Cottrell. The Church of England should have a louder political voice, the Archbishop of York has said. In an interview with The Observer, Stephen Cottrell, who became the Church of England's second most senior clergyman when he was enthroned in October, said he wants the church to take a bigger lead in a political climate in which "we've learned to accommodate things that we know are wrong". The 62-year-old told the paper: "I simply don't accept a separation between the church and politics, faith and politics or, for that matter, anything and...