Courses
Bible Reading Guide: “30-day New Testament”
Added: 10th May 2007
Bible Reading Guide: “60-day Combined Guide”
Added: 10th May 2007
Lent Course 2007: Magnificat: “Introduction”
Added: 11th December 2006
Lent Course 2008: Christ on Trial: “John: Home and Away”
Added: 20th February 2008
Pastoral Care Training Pack: “Unit 5: Grief - Jesus Wept”
Added: 5th June 2009
Pastoral Care Training Pack: “Unit 6: Relationships; Love One Another”
Added: 5th June 2009
Pastoral Care Training Pack: “Unit 10: Reflection - Journey's End and A New Beginning”
Added: 5th June 2009
Meditations
At the Foot of the Cross 2009: “The Scourging - Casual Violence”
Added: 23rd March 2009
At the Foot of the Cross 2009: “Thorns - Nature Subverted”
Added: 23rd March 2009
At the Foot of the Cross 2009: “Nails - The Point Is”
Added: 23rd March 2009
Holy Week 2020: “Monday of Holy Week”
Added: 24th June 2020
Holy Week 2020: “Tuesday of Holy Week”
Added: 24th June 2020
Holy Week 2020: “Wednesday of Holy Week”
Added: 24th June 2020
Added: 24th June 2020
Added: 24th June 2020
Seven Last Words 07: “Dependence”
Added: 23rd April 2007
Added: 23rd April 2007
Seven Last Words 07: “Responsibility”
Added: 23rd April 2007
Study Sheets
Bauckham, Richard: Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospel as Eyewitness Testimony
Added: 14th April 2010
Added: 16th May 2007
Added: 30th June 2015
Ethics: Judgment, Morality and Justice
Added: 18th November 2007
Evagrius: The Seven Deadly Sins, Origins: “History of Sin”
Added: 3rd February 2011
Evagrius: The Seven Deadly Sins, Origins: “The Eight "Thoughts" of Evagrius”
Added: 3rd February 2011
Formation of the New Testament Canon
Added: 10th September 2009
Added: 13th November 2006
Added: 9th February 2007
Added: 30th June 2015
Added: 27th March 2007
Added: 30th June 2015
Added: 30th June 2015
Added: 9th February 2007
Richard Burridge: John Chapter 5
Added: 10th September 2009
Richard Burridge: John Chapter 6
Added: 10th September 2009
Richard Burridge: John Chapters 1-2
Added: 10th September 2009
Richard Burridge: John Chapters 11-12
Added: 10th September 2009
Richard Burridge: John Chapters 13-15
Added: 10th September 2009
Richard Burridge: John Chapters 16-17
Added: 10th September 2009
Richard Burridge: John Chapters 18-19
Added: 10th September 2009
Richard Burridge: John Chapters 20-21
Added: 10th September 2009
Richard Burridge: John Chapters 3-4
Added: 10th September 2009
Richard Burridge: John Chapters 7-8
Added: 10th September 2009
Richard Burridge: John Chapters 9-10
Added: 10th September 2009
Richard Burridge: John Overview
Introductory Notes
Added: 10th September 2009
Richard Burridge: John Prologue
Added: 10th September 2009
Added: 10th September 2009
The Events of Holy Week Radically Re-Assessed
Added: 30th June 2015
Added: 9th February 2007
Thiselton, Anthony: The Last Things: A New Approach
Added: 12th November 2012
Vermes, The Changing Faces of Jesus - John
Added: 15th July 2008
Vermes, The Changing Faces of Jesus - Paul
Added: 15th July 2008
Sermons
The Resurrection is God's irreversible promise to humanity that with Grace we will attain everlasting life (Rahner). We have problems with eschatological perspective; we think it will never happen; but it will!
Year C, The Fifth Sunday of Lent; Added: 27th March 2007
Imagining heaven is impossible but it is the kingdom - thinking of Luke - of the lost sheep and the Good Samaritan.
Year B, Christ the King (The Sunday next before Advent); Added: 9th February 2007
Jesus asked Peter if he loved him not because he did not know the answer but because he wanted Peter to continue to ask himself that question. Love is not deal making it goes and it goes and it goes. The more space you make in love the more we can make and the more there is for us.
Year C, The Third Sunday of Easter; Added: 23rd April 2007
The Word Was Made Flesh prompts us to focus on three ideas: agape is not superior to Eros; the gender of the child is not significant; and the divine and human are precisely replicated in the Eucharist.
Year B, The Second Sunday before Lent; Added: 6th March 2007
The difference between human and divine love is that humans talk about beloveds but don't share them; but the quintessential desire of the spiritual lover is to share.
Year C, The Seventh Sunday of Easter (Sunday after Ascension Day); Added: 28th May 2007
We have three reasons for celebrating Christ The King: His unconditional love for us; our thankful re-dedication of all that we have done in the last year; and our anticipation of The Kingdom.
Year B, Christ the King (The Sunday next before Advent); Added: 24th October 2007
Belief is not set in stone, it takes account of growth and experience but in the 'combat' with science we have adopted some scientific method; belief is provisional, subject to doubt and must be discussed in charity.
Year B, The Second Sunday of Easter; Added: 6th March 2007
As the Chosen People the Jews necessarily had a problem with difference; but we are equal before God in the power of the Good News.
Year B, The Fifth Sunday of Easter; Added: 9th February 2007
One way of understanding the dynamic of the Trinity is to try and imagine it with one 'person' missing.
Year B, Trinity Sunday; Added: 9th February 2007
Food storage and the accumulation of income and wealth place new obligations on Christian stewardship.
Year B, The Second Sunday of Easter; Added: 9th February 2007
The purpose of the kingly metaphor is that it points us beyond ourselves to the limitless mystery of God; The Kingdom is not an escape from earth but a lifelong embracing of it.
Year B, Christ the King (The Sunday next before Advent); Added: 9th February 2007
Integrity is not the same as consistency. Judas saw Jesus as the Grand Old Duke of York whereas he wanted a ruthless and consistent line.
Tuesday of Holy Week; Added: 6th March 2007
If we concentrate too much on "in the beginning" and "ever shall be" we lose the dynamic presence of the Trinity in our lives.
Year B, Trinity Sunday; Added: 9th February 2007
Proper 13: The interface between the human and the divine in the gift of manna and the Eucharist inevitably causes turbulence.
Year B, The Ninth Sunday after Trinity; Added: 24th July 2012
Proper 15: We are not the triumphalist elect of the Eucharist but its ambassadors to the whole world.
Year B, The Eleventh Sunday after Trinity; Added: 24th July 2012
Proper 12: If the mass feeding by Jesus is construed in Eucharistic typology, it presents Catholics and Protestants with difficult questions
Year B, The Eighth Sunday after Trinity; Added: 23rd July 2012
Proper 16: It is difficult to see how believers in the Incarnation cannot accept the mystery of Christ given to the world in bread and wine.
Year B, The Twelth Sunday after Trinity; Added: 24th July 2012
Proper 14: Medieval theologians struggled heroically with the mechanics of the Eucharist but we might do better to focus on the mystery.
Year B, The Tenth Sunday after Trinity; Added: 24th July 2012
Proper 12 to Proper 16: The 'bread talk' of John Chapter 6 raises fundamental questions about the interface of the human and the divine in the Sacrament of the Eucharist.
Year B, The Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity; Added: 24th July 2012
The lengthening of the eschatological horizon lowers the intensity of religion but we should live in joyful hope.
Year B, The Third Sunday of Advent; Added: 6th March 2007
Judas & Peter: Fraud and Self Delusion
The denial of Judas is more stark than that of Peter but often self delusion is as dangerous as outright wrong.
Tuesday of Easter Week; Added: 27th March 2007
Unlike the high profile leadership of Samuel, most of us are called to the quiet ministry of Philip and Nathaniel. If we think that the current economic crisis has nothing to do with us and the Church, we are denying the incarnation.
Year B, The Second Sunday of Epiphany; Added: 26th January 2009
The Lamb of God did not take away the sins of the world but put sin back into its proper divine perspective.
Year A, The Third Sunday of Epiphany; Added: 21st January 2008
We know more about the pragmatic Martha and fanciful Mary than their brother who died, was raised and then threatened by the religious authorities.
Monday of Holy Week; Added: 27th March 2007
It is not easy to remain constant in the love of God and we should not look for "signs" to support us but always keep the Resurrection in view.
Year B, The Third Sunday of Lent; Added: 24th October 2007
Never Let the Cross Be a Cliché
It is too easy to let the idea of the Cross become a cliché.
The Fifth Sunday of Lent; Added: 9th April 2015
The obsession with detail is less dangerous than the obsession with generalisation but both are manifestations of pride.
Philip and James, Apostles; Added: 6th May 2016
The least we can do for the oppressed and for ourselves as the oppressed in waiting, is to refuse to collude in our own downfall.
Added: 20th February 2008
John's "New Commandment", driven by the Holy Spirit within Peter, brings about a revolution, the recognition that non Jews can be Christians. Grace is our means of living the Commandment, in spite of the deluge of temptation.
Year C, The Fifth Sunday of Easter; Added: 24th October 2007
The institutional church has tended to hijack the Holy Spirit as its own private property.
Year A, The Second Sunday of Easter; Added: 7th April 2008
At this time of crisis we regret our ability to see emerging paradigms; the Disciples suffered similarly when they went through the Holy Week experience.
Year B, Maundy Thursday; Added: 17th April 2009
When Mary broke open the jar of ointment she was breaking open all her pent up richness and poverty.
Monday of Holy Week; Added: 6th March 2007
Bishops who speak out against materialism are in a line going back to Samuel; but why do so few say anything? And do we support them or the politicians?
Year B, The Second Sunday of Epiphany; Added: 26th January 2009
Church leaders who style themselves "Orthodox" or "Authentic" are endangering the "Anglican Spirit" of toleration by seeking to impose a high degree of confessional detail and oppression. Bishops should be shepherds not security guards. If we think of The Church as an aircraft, it will crash if we put operating procedures above ensuring that we have enough fuel, in the form of love, to stay airborne; all the instruments are on red.
Year A, The Fifth Sunday of Easter; Added: 28th April 2008
Sermons and Prayers for Lambeth: “Lord of the Shepherds and The Sheep”
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Added: 15th July 2008
The same quality that makes us strive makes us discontented but, unlike the Jews in the wilderness, we have been brought home in the Resurrection and fed with the Eucharist.
The Forth Sunday of Easter; Added: 9th February 2007
Of the great Reformation reformers, only Cranmer and Zwingli denied the real presence in the Eucharist in which Jesus under-wrote his physical reality. Reformation Protestantism tended to be dualist which accounts for it stance on the relative importance of incarnation, Crucifixion, Resurrection and Eucharist.
Year B, The Ninth Sunday after Trinity; Added: 17th October 2006
We are all dwellings of the divine presence; Lent is a good time for spring cleaning before the Temple of Jesus rises from the dead.
Year B, The Third Sunday of Lent; Added: 6th March 2007
During this week of sorrow we are asked to celebrate with joy the birth of the universal Church.
Tuesday of Holy Week; Added: 27th March 2007
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times
Humanity was responsible for the death of Christ; and Christ was responsible for giving himself in Eucharist.
Year A, Maundy Thursday; Added: 7th April 2008
The Creator is in the world; The Spirit is in the Church; and the Jesus who was with us in Palestine is with us in Eucharist.
Year B, The Ninth Sunday after Trinity; Added: 17th October 2006
One of the vital forces in society is our ability to turn imagination into reality; but this is nothing to God causing the Word to be made Flesh.
Year B, Sixth Sunday of the Year; Added: 19th February 2009
When we attend a Eucharist we need to have some idea of what is going on.
The Eleventh Sunday after Trinity; Added: 27th October 2018
Can you remember the last time you held an intimate conversation about a big idea where you asked questions, listened and came away wiser?
Year A, The Second Sunday of Lent; Added: 20th February 2008
Peace is not an absence nor an escape into emptiness, it is being open to the Spirit, imitating Jesus and making an unconditional offer to God. When we exchange The Peace it is not ours but the peace of the Cross.
Year C, The Sixth Sunday of Easter; Added: 24th October 2007
Isaiah and John Baptist are lighting pink candles amid the purple; getting ready we have the purple of penitence and the white of Christmas but also the secular red. Let us enjoy them and allow them to inform each other.
Year B, The Third Sunday of Advent; Added: 7th March 2007
The image of the vine is incarnational; but being a vine requires faithfulness and suffering.
Year B, The Fifth Sunday of Easter; Added: 9th February 2007
After an era of solidity, the 1960s brought a time of turbulence which persists and tempts us to nostalgia, just as the era of Jesus was nostalgic for David and Solomon; his listeners had not tools for recognising him; are our tools any better or do we rely on 'childish' religion?
Year A, The Fifth Sunday of Easter; Added: 27th March 2007
God's acts of creation and Resurrection are simultaneous, not sequential.
The Third Sunday of Lent; Added: 17th March 2016
The COVID-19 virus puts a new spin on familiar Holy Week Texts
Year A, Monday of Holy Week; Added: 24th June 2020
The contemporary equivalent of foot washing is a necessary precondition for Eucharist.
Year B, Maundy Thursday; Added: 20th May 2021
I have some sympathy for Thomas; but we know that something cataclysmic happened between Good Friday and Pentecost, that his Disciples believed that Jesus was truly present with them and that nobody doubted the significance of these events.
Year C, The Second Sunday of Easter; Added: 23rd April 2007
Liturgy
Compline for The Last Week of Advent
Added: 13th December 2007
Reviews
Jesus: A Portrait: “Chapter 1: The Beauty of Jesus”
ISBN: 0232527199; Added: 22nd June 2009
Jesus: A Portrait: “Chapter 2: God's Kingdom in Person”
ISBN: 0232527199; Added: 22nd June 2009
Jesus: A Portrait: “Chapter 3: Divine and Human”
ISBN: 0232527199; Added: 22nd June 2009
Living The Magnificat: Affirming Catholicism in A Broken World
Chapman, Mark (ed); Mowbray (2007)
ISBN: 190628606X; Added: 18th November 2008
BCP Commentary
Added: 25th February 2009
Added: 25th February 2009
Added: 25th May 2009
(November 30)
Added: 25th February 2009
(August 24)
Added: 6th September 2009
(June 24)
Added: 6th September 2009
(June 29)
Added: 6th September 2009
Saint Philip and Saint James’s Day
(May 1)
Added: 25th February 2009
(December 21)
Added: 25th February 2009
Added: 25th May 2009
January 1st
Added: 4th November 2008
Added: 25th May 2009
The Fifth Sunday after Trinity
Added: 25th May 2009
Added: 25th May 2009
The Second Sunday after Easter
Added: 25th May 2009
The Seventh Sunday after Trinity
Added: 25th May 2009
The Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity
Added: 6th September 2009
The Tenth Sunday after Trinity
Added: 25th May 2009
Added: 25th February 2009