This Sunday’s gospel lectionary reading for Advent 2 in Year C is Luke 3.1–6, the location and opening of John the Baptist’s ...

What do you find most irritating about this time of year? The drawing in of dark and cold nights? The hideous adoption of ...

Advent is once more upon us (pun intended!), and with it comes two sets of confusion: the idea that Advent is the ...

Gary Jenkins has previously written on this website about the Church of England and its struggle to engage with the working ...

In all three Synoptic gospels, Jesus concludes a conversation about the contrast between his teaching and practice and that ...

I write a quarterly column for Preach magazine, in which I explore a significant word or phrase in the Bible, or a theme or ...

The Sunday gospel lectionary reading for Advent 1 in Year C is Luke 21.25–36, from this gospel’s version of what is often ...

This Sunday, the last of the liturgical year, is Christ the king, and comes immediately before Advent. It is a slightly odd ...