The lectionary epistle for Easter 4 is 1 Peter 2.19–end. Peter sees out a challenge call for us to endure suffering following ...

The lectionary readings for the Third Sunday in Easter ignore the particular gospel for the year, and instead cycle round ...

It is over three years since the Church Commissioners published their controversial report on the Church’s links to the slave trade. Since then critics have challenged the Commissioners’ historical ...

At the Society of Biblical Literature annual conference in Atlanta in 2015, I attended several papers on the Book of ...

The lectionary epistle for Easter 3 in Year A is 1 Peter 1.17–23. In this section, Peter begins by reflecting on the ...

The Sunday gospel lectionary reading for the Second Sunday in Easter is John 20.19–31, which includes Jesus' encounter with so-called 'doubting Thomas'. It is the set reading for this week in all ...

He’s gone. The, the tomb….the stone’s rolled away! Jesus….He’s not there….I’ve just run the whole way back…. I had to tell you. This is mad ...

Andrew Goddard writes: Twenty years ago, in June 2006, Archbishop Rowan Williams wrote in his significant and still-worth-reading reflection, “The Challenge and Hope of Being an Anglican Today” There ...

I am reposting again this year the article I post most years in Easter, on the question of whether the gospel accounts contradict each other in their schedule of the first Holy Week. I think it is ...