The Sunday gospel lectionary reading for the fourth Sunday before Lent in Year C is Luke 5.1–11, the story of the miraculous catch of fish, as we jump forward into Jesus’ ministry before returning to ...

The lectionary epistle reading for the Fourth Sunday before Lent in Year C is 1 Corinthians 15.1–11. Paul here offers a ...

In the light of the House of Bishops stating that there will be no further decisions on PLF in either the February or July ...

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 ...

questions related to PLF and revision of the pastoral guidance. The addition of pastoral provision/reassurance and the promise not to proceed with PLF or Pastoral Guidance without it. 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 diversity of ministry, but shifts the register from 'gifts of the Spirit' to ...

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 ...