It is hard to say anything original about the tragic affair of Jason Arday, his appointment as a professor in Cambridge, the ...

To 'carry one's cross' has commonly been understood as bearing a heavy burden through life, and some are sceptical as to ...

Paul sets out a remarkable vision of life in the redeemed community, using a particularly powerful rhetorical style. Instead ...

It is Peter's confession of who Jesus is as Messiah, but it also contains Matthew's unique material in which Jesus calls ...

Peter’s confession of Jesus in Matthew 16.13–20 has some fascinating differences from the parallel accounts in Luke and Mark—and a unique Matthean comment addressed by Jesus to Peter. Video discussion ...

In the lectionary reading for Trinity 13 year A, Romans 12.9–21, Paul sets out a remarkable vision of life in the redeemed community, using a particularly powerful rhetorical style. Instead of ...

The reading for Trinity 12 in Year A is Matthew 16.13–20. It is Peter’s confession of who Jesus is as Messiah, but it also contains Matthew’s unique material in which Jesus calls Peter ‘rock’, gives ...

The common reading of Jesus (and Peter) walking on the water is: when there is a storm, and you get out of the boat, keep your eyes on Jesus. But the passage is more intriguing than this, and the ...

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, has been visiting west Africa, and was pictured meeting both the King of the Ashanti (above) and visiting the sites of slave trading, in particular the ...

Dr Zachary Ardern writes: The Nicene Creed affirms: We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen. The BBC Science Unit apparently neither ...