I was rather shocked a couple of years ago when I spotted in my Twitter feed the following tweet from the Archbishop of Canterbury: Today we mark the Feast of the #Assumption of the Blessed Virgin ...

I have often heard it said that when God delivers us, he leads us from a sense of being trapped, hemmed in and confined to a ...

The Sunday lectionary reading (Trinity 9, Year C) continues on its journey through Luke's 'special section' of Jesus' ...

I would like to start a campaign, and it begins today: we should prohibit all use of the word 'church'. I suppose I should ...

What is the connection between Jesus' name and the number eight? Why was it significant that Jesus was raised on the eighth ...

The gospel lectionary reading for Trinity 9 in this Year C is Luke 12.49–56, continuing in a substantial section of teaching of Jesus gathered together by Luke. In this part of the gospel, we find ...

A Reference on Racial Justice in the Church of England’ (hereafter BBT) is a ‘book of readings and testimonies about the work ...

The Sunday lectionary gospel for Trinity 8 in Year C is from Luke 12.32–40, and offers a slightly odd selection of verses, in that it includes the end of one section of Jesus' teaching—on trusting God ...

In the modern world, we live in an age of abundance of texts, and therefore we have to consider carefully the culture of the first century, and their very different relation to texts, when reading the ...