The gospel reading for Trinity 14 in Year A, Matt 18.15–20, comes within the fourth of the five collections of teaching organised by Matthew to, in some sense, present Jesus as a new Moses. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alongside putting up the Christmas decorations (usually far too early), finding a Christmas tree, preparing for carol services and planning where to buy your turkey, one of the annual routines at ...