Last weekend, in an online conversation, someone highlighted to me the most recent ministry statistics, which were released ...

Once more, the lectionary cuts the reading in an odd place, starting half way through an argument of Paul, and finishing two verses short of the end of the letter. There are some important issues to ...

Tim Wyatt is an interesting and often astute commentator on things Church of England. Ten days ago he expanded an article he had written in the New Statesman, setting out the challenges facing whoever ...

The Sunday lectionary gospel reading for Trinity 14 in Year C is Luke 16.1–13, the so-called Parable of the Unjust Steward (or ‘Dishonest Manager’). (The epistle is 1 Tim 2.1–7, and you can find video ...

The epistle for Trinity 14 is a second passage from 1 Tim, this time the first seven verses of chapter 2. Paul’s urging Timothy that all kinds of prayer should be offering follows strongly from the ...

The Sunday lectionary gospel reading for Trinity 14 in Year C is Luke 16.1–13, the so-called Parable of the Unjust Steward (or ‘Dishonest Manager’). (The epistle is 1 Tim 2.1–7, and you can find video ...

The perennial question for anyone thinking seriously about the Christian life and our place in the world has two parts to it.

When bishops and archbishops speak about migration it always hits the headlines—and never ends well. In 2016, Justin Welby ...

The Sunday lectionary gospel for Trinity 13 in Year C is the first two of the three 'parables of the lost' in Luke 15, the ...