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' ...

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

The lectionary reading for the Seventh Sunday after Trinity in Year C is the Parable of the Rich Fool in Luke 12.13–21. It is one of several parables that is unique to Luke, and includes features that ...

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 ...

The lectionary reading for Trinity 7 in this Year C is Colossians 3.1–11, the last of our mini-series in this letter. We are at a classic hinge point in Paul’s letter; having told us everything that ...

This leaves us with two other ‘tribulation’ texts to consider—those in Matt 24 and Mark 13, and those in the Book of Revelation. I have discussed the Little Apocalypse at length in this article, so ...

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 ...