Last weekend, in an online conversation, someone highlighted to me the most recent ministry statistics, which were released ...

The epistle for Trinity 15 in Year C is 1 Tim 6.6–19. Once more, the lectionary cuts the reading in an odd place, starting half way through an argument of Paul, and finishing two verses short of the ...

Tim Wyatt is an interesting and often astute commentator on things Church of England. Ten days ago he expanded an article he had written in the New Statesman, setting out the challenges facing whoever ...

The epistle for Trinity 14 is a second passage from 1 Tim, this time the first seven verses of chapter 2. Paul’s urging Timothy that all kinds of prayer should be offering follows strongly from the ...

The perennial question for anyone thinking seriously about the Christian life and our place in the world has two parts to it.

When bishops and archbishops speak about migration it always hits the headlines—and never ends well. In 2016, Justin Welby ...

The lectionary gospel reading for Trinity 10 Year C is Luke 13.10–17, a short but remarkable account, unique to Luke, of Jesus healing a crippled woman on the Sabbath. For video discussion of the ...

I would like to start a campaign, and it begins today: we should prohibit all use of the word ‘church’. I suppose I should qualify that a little: we should prohibit the use of the word “church” in the ...

Some years ago, Martin Saunders (of Youthscape) wrote an excellent article highlighting four issues which often prevent evangelicals from understanding what has been happening in the Israel/Gaza ...