The lectionary gospel reading for Advent 2 in Year A is Matt 3.1–12, and it contains many foundational themes of eschatology, ...

It follows on from Paul's discussion about the 'strong' and the 'weak' in chapter 14, and in many ways summarises the themes ...

c. The exercise of discipline and clergy exemplarity in the Church of England: The case of same-sex civil marriages. I have elsewhere offered an assessment of these papers from my own conservative ...

I write a quarterly column for Preach magazine, in which I explore a significant word, phrase, or idea in the Bible, or a theme or section of Scripture, and the ideas that it expresses. At the end of ...

With the advent of Advent on Sunday, we make the move in the lectionary from Year C to Year A. So, after journeying through Luke all year, this Sunday’s gospel reading comes from Matthew, Matt ...

One of the (many) great paradoxes of the Book of Revelation is that, at one and the same time, it is experienced as both very ...

The recent announcement from the House of Bishops (discussed here by me and here by Ian Paul) is raising the question as to ...

This Sunday was traditionally known in the Church of England as 'Stir-up Sunday', a phrase derived from the BCP Collect for the last Sunday before Advent, which in turn inspired the making of ...

Every year, in the northern hemisphere, and especially in Northern Europe, we are apparently caught by surprise as the evenings draw in, and the morning light comes later. It always seems surprising, ...

Marginally later than in some previous years, the full details of the annual returns on attendance for the Church of England has been published (‘Statistics for Mission’). This is in two parts, both ...

Joshua Penduck writes: On a cold and wet evening sometime in early 2021, my church’s ministry and management team met on Zoom to discuss the first chapter of the then new Living in Love and Faith ...