It is appalling that there are threats to JK Rowling after her support for Salman Rushdie. Threats and attacks undermine the freedom on which we all rely to be able to comment. Prayer and much sympathy for both

Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, Twitter, 14 August

Should you have been following the discourse about the Lambeth Conference and the Anglican Communion on social media, you have probably heard a story of division, of anger, polarisation, and potentially even hatred. From our experiences, that couldn’t be further from the truth

Lizzy Flaherty, volunteer steward from Holsworthy, in Exeter diocese, Twitter, 11 August

He wanted to know which tractor I drive. He wants to be a farmer. Note to self: get a tractor

Stephen Lake, Bishop of Salisbury, Twitter, 14 August, commenting on a photograph of him outside of St Mary’s, West Moors, talking to a boy wearing his mitre

There will come a moment when the 150K members of the Conservative party will be replaced, as an electorate, with millions and millions of working people who will remember this stuff [the leaked report in which Liz Truss suggested British workers lacked the “graft” of the Chinese] as profoundly contemptuous and offensive. Can it really be that these politicians can’t see that?

Paul Bayes, a former Bishop of Liverpool, Twitter, 16 August

Let’s say morning prayer, but let’s say it nice and quietly, in case anyone here has a hangover

Adam Smallbone, played by Tom Hollander, in the first episode of Rev, now available on BBC iPlayer

This is not your grandmother’s church — and whether the new faithful are performing an act of theater or not, they have the chance to revitalize the church for young, educated Americans

Julia Yost, a senior editor at First Things, writing in the New York Times, 9 August

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