This Sunday, Lent 5 in Year A, we come to the last of our for explorations of Jesus' encounters with individuals that formed ...

The lectionary epistle for Lent 5 in Year A is Romans 8.6–11, a slightly odd choice in cutting out verse 5, or even in missing verses 1 to 4. Paul is expounding here different aspects of the two ...

It has been reported that US troops have been told that the war in Iran is the beginning of the final Battle of Armageddon ...

Andrew Atherstone has continued the tradition of being the biographer of our archbishops. He published two on Justin Welby, ...

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

Lent 4 is also Mothering Sunday in the calendar, and the readings for Mothering Sunday in Year A are 2 Corinthians 1.3-7 and ...

Tim Goode is a residentiary canon in York Minster, having previously spent all his time since ordination in 2009 in parish ministry in Southwark Diocese. Tim was elected to General Synod in 2015, and ...

You probably know that there still is a small Samaritan Israelite community. Who are they? Where are they from? “It’s complicated,” as they say, because it all depends on who you are listening to. In ...

The Sunday lectionary gospel reading for Lent 2 in Year A is Nicodemus’ meeting with Jesus in John 3.1–17. The epistle is Romans 4.1-5 and 13-17. The video discussion of the epistle is here, and of ...

John Root writes: The diocese of London has been awarded a grant of £730,000 from the Church of England’s Racial Justice Unit to develop its racial justice work over a three year period. This is part ...