The epistle for Trinity 14 in Year A is Romans 13:8–14. It is a further bundle of practical teaching in the light of God’s grace, but clusters around two ideas. The first is love as the fulfilment of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Andy Burnham has made a promise to end rough sleeping as a priority. Although this sounds good, such promises have been made before—and failed to deliver. The danger is that focussing on such headline ...

Professor Richard Dale writes: KICKING IN THE CATHEDRAL DOOR How the Church Commissioners relied on bogus history to denounce their predecessors and vilify their own Church It is over three years ...

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 ...

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 him the keys to the kingdom, and commissions him to bind ...