The use of individual cups at Holy Communion is again being hotly debated in Church of England parishes and PCCs. I asked ...

Paul uses striking fatherly language in addressing Timothy, but also notes the way that faith has been passed to him through ...

John Nelson combines teaching in a secondary school with serious academic research on the New Testament. At the British New Testament Conference earlier this month, he gave a fascinating paper about ...

Last weekend, in an online conversation, someone highlighted to me the most recent ministry statistics, which were released in June, but seem to have gone under the radar. I certainly did not spot ...

Once more, the lectionary cuts the reading in an odd place, starting half way through an argument of Paul, and finishing two ...

Tim Wyatt is an interesting and often astute commentator on things Church of England. Ten days ago he expanded an article he ...

The Sunday lectionary gospel reading for Trinity 14 in Year C is Luke 16.1–13, the so-called Parable of the Unjust Steward ...

In 2016, Justin Welby got into trouble when he said that it was quite reasonable to ‘fear’ the consequences of mass migration. There is a tendency to say ‘those people are racist’, which is just ...

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 parable of the lost sheep and the parable of the lost coin. We don’t go on to ...

Our epistle reading for Trinity 13 in this Year C is 1 Tim 1.12–17. (It is not clear why the lectionary omits the opening verses of 1 Tim.) There are very good reasons to believe (against some ...