For the first decade of the 2000s I was a vicar in suburban southwest London. Part of my inheritance from the previous regime ...

The NT epistle for Candlemas, or the Presentation of Jesus in the temple, is Heb 2.14–18. With its emphasis on the humanity ...

Eschatology—the question of the 'last days' or 'last things'—is a central theological theme in the New Testament. It frames ...

The Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order (IASCUFO) has recently published the Nairobi-Cairo proposals for reimagining the Anglican Communion. Here Andrew Atherstone, one of the ...

The lectionary readings for Epiphany 3 in this Year C are 1 Cor 12.12–31a, and Luke 4.14–21, where Jesus returns from the ...

The NT epistle for Epiphany 3 in this year C continues reading 1 Cor 12.12–31a. Here, Paul expands his themes of unity and ...

When Justin Welby announced his intention to resign as Archbishop of Canterbury, and again when he stepped down on 6th ...

I was invited to a church in Hull to do a morning's teaching giving an overview of what the Bible said about sex. It was ...

For the first decade of the 2000s I was a vicar in suburban southwest London. Part of my inheritance from the previous regime was a church with close links to a cult. It was a very British kind of ...

Eschatology—the question of the ‘last days’ or ‘last things’—is a central theological theme in the New Testament. It frames Jesus’ proclamation of the kingdom of God in the gospels, and in the ...

In my experience, there is a very broad range of answers to this question. It has generally been assumed by moral ‘conservatives’ that the answer is self-evidently ‘yes’; by contrast, it has generally ...