In reading the headline, you might think that I am about to explore some of the claims of the recent GAFCON meeting on whether the C of E is being led in the right direction. But in fact I want to ...

This week Sunday lectionary reading for Trinity 3 Year C is Luke 10.1–11, 16–20 which records Jesus sending out the seventy- (two) on 'mission' and their return. I include at the foot of this article ...

For Trinity 3 in this Year C, we finish our mini-series on Galatians with (most of) the final chapter, Galatians 6. [1-6] 7-16. (The lectionary choice is again slightly odd; the first part should be ...

Mark Broadway writes: It is sometimes remarked that it is uncouth to discuss religion and politics. Throw into that mix money, sex, and death, and you begin to set the bounds for the precise ...

The Book of Revelation is a strange book to read. As someone once said about the Troubles in Northern Ireland: 'If you're not ...

The gospel reading from Luke 9.51–62 consists of a brief narrative of rejection of Jesus, following by a collection of three sayings about the challenge of discipleship—but the significance of this ...

The lectionary readings for Trinity 2 in Year C are Galatians 5.1, 13-25 Luke 9.51 -end. In Galatians 5, Paul explores the meaning of freedom in Christ. This is not freedom to indulge the desires of ...

When I first started studying theology, our set text for our New Testament Greek class was 1 Peter, the same text which is ...