All briefings

September 2026

1. Saturday, 12 September 2026Church Briefing: An Archbishop's Interfaith Meeting, and Leadership Changes Across the Communion

   Leadership changed hands across the Anglican Communion, while other outlets weighed faith's place in politics and technology.

2. Friday, 11 September 2026Daily Briefing, Friday 11 September: Assisted dying returns to the Commons as two churches choose new leaders

   The assisted dying bill returned to the Commons, with the Archbishop of Canterbury having urged MPs to reject it, as churches in Japan and Florida chose new leaders and National Baptists in the United States pressed for voter turnout.

3. Thursday, 10 September 2026London Evangelist Cleared, Amid Other Religious-Liberty Rulings and 9/11 Reflection

   A 72-year-old street evangelist was cleared of criminal charges in London, in a case that tested whether a single neighborhood could be treated as off-limits for biblical speech, as two other religious-liberty developments emerged in the United States and outlets marked the approaching 25th anniversary of September 11.

4. Wednesday, 9 September 2026A court decides who holds a church in Exeter, as writers turn to memory, scripture and rest

   An English court has settled which body controls the buildings of a divided Exeter congregation, while across the churches the day's writing dwells on remembrance, the reading of scripture and the disciplines of a distracted age.

5. Tuesday, 8 September 2026Daily Church News Briefing — Tuesday, 8 September 2026

   The day's most consequential story concerns people, not argument.

6. Monday, 7 September 2026Monday's Briefing: Pentecostal leaders press for TPS as a Salvadoran deadline nears

   A push in Washington to protect Salvadoran immigrants led a day that also brought a disciplinary complaint against an English bishop and the naming of a well-known author caught up in a viral flight.