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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The discovery by two disciples of the empty tomb, and Mary Magdelene's encounter with Jesus, in John 20.1–18, is one of the main options for the gospel reading for Easter Sunday in Year A (the ...

The NT epistle reading for Palm Sunday in this Year 3 is the so-called ‘Christ hymn’ in Phil 2.5–11. This is a fitting parallel to the account of Jesus’ non-triumphal entry into Jerusalem in Luke ...