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 2006: The People of God: “Unit Two - Ranking as an analytical tool”
This sounds fearsome but it simply clarifies what we do subconsciously; it looks at a range of issues and asks us to say which are more or less important; or which are sub issues of other issues. The objective is to help us to separate issues so that they are not all tangled in a large bucket labelled "Theology".
Added: 17th October 2006
Lent Course 2006: The People of God: “Unit Three - Lay presidency at the Eucharist”
How important is this issue? How are we to understand the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist which is so central to the lives of many of us? What happens at the Eucharist? Is what happens so important that it requires the active presence of a priest? How does this fit in with St. Peter's idea that we are all members of the "Royal Priesthood" (1 Peter 2:1-10)?
Added: 17th October 2006
Lent Course 2007: Magnificat: “Introduction”
Added: 11th December 2006
Lent Course 2008: Christ on Trial: “Luke: Knocking on The Window”
Added: 20th February 2008
Pastoral Care Training Pack: “Unit 4: Care - My Brother's Keeper”
Added: 5th June 2009
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 7: Money - The Lilies of the Field”
Added: 5th June 2009
Pastoral Care Training Pack: “Unit 8: Worry - Martha & Mary”
Added: 5th June 2009
Pastoral Care Training Pack: “Unit 9: Prayer & Scripture - Watch and pray”
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
Holy Week 2020: “Monday of Holy Week”
Added: 24th June 2020
Holy Week 2020: “Easter Evening”
Added: 24th June 2020
Added: 23rd April 2007
Seven Last Words 07: “Forgiveness”
Added: 23rd April 2007
Added: 23rd April 2007
Study Sheets
Added: 28th April 2011
Bauckham, Richard: Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospel as Eyewitness Testimony
Added: 14th April 2010
Added: 14th April 2010
Added: 16th May 2007
Added: 30th June 2015
Ethics: An Introductory Work-Out
Added: 3rd September 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: 28th April 2011
Added: 27th March 2007
Added: 27th March 2007
Added: 30th June 2015
Paul Bradshaw: Eucharist Origins
Added: 10th September 2009
Added: 9th February 2007
Richard Burridge: John Chapter 6
Added: 10th September 2009
Richard Burridge: John Chapters 1-2
Added: 10th September 2009
Added: 19th January 2008
The Authorship of Epistles traditionally attributed to Paul
Added: 23rd April 2007
The Eucharist of Christendom, 30-1520 AD
Added: 13th November 2006
The Events of Holy Week Radically Re-Assessed
Added: 30th June 2015
Added: 9th February 2007
Added: 9th February 2007
The Kingdom in Matthew's Gospel
Added: 28th October 2010
Added: 30th June 2015
Added: 30th June 2015
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 - Overview
Added: 15th July 2008
Vermes, The Changing Faces of Jesus - Synoptics
Added: 15th July 2008
Sermons
We are both sinners and Pharisees: sin makes us equal under God and we exercise power as Pharisees; we have to be conscious of the first in fulfilling the second which is an honourable profession.
Year C, The Last Sunday after Trinity; Added: 24th October 2007
The mystery of the heavenly life encompasses body and should, thereby doing credit to the body; just as The Word stretches towards the divine, so the Sacrament of the Eucharist brings the divine to us.
Year C, The Third Sunday before Advent; Added: 24th October 2007
Remember God, remember yourselves before you made your straight ways crooked, remember love.
Year C, The Second Sunday of Advent; Added: 9th February 2007
As Disciples we should be forgiving, tolerant and supportive of each other.
Added: 1st August 2019
Three rules; retain goods if this enables our better lives; learn some economics of cause and effect; take the issue personally.
Year C, The Ninth Sunday after Trinity; Added: 3rd September 2007
We have to face social and economic injustice head-on.
Added: 1st August 2019
Christianity is the religion of the first person, not in boasting but in affirmation. Our great prayers are written this way. Matthew's Sermon the Mount is "they" whereas Luke's on The Plain is "you".
Year C, Sixth Sunday of the Year; Added: 12th February 2007
The Law was not made by men but given on Mount Sinai; as Fragments of Jesus, in observing it we should not care what other people think, particularly in acting kindly.
Year C, The Eleventh Sunday after Trinity; Added: 24th October 2007
Simeon knew that bringing light into the world would mean suffering and death for Jesus; it is because of this light that we are here now.
Year A, The Forth Sunday of Lent (Mothering Sunday); Added: 6th March 2008
The events on the road to Emmaus and the makeshift meal there is living evidence of our life in Christ.
The Third Sunday of Easter; Added: 12th May 2017
Although Mary was taking a terrible risk when she responded to God, she responded, as we should, not in fear but in love. We can only understand her radicalism when we recognise the radicalism of The Word.
Year B, The Forth Sunday of Advent; Added: 23rd December 2008
It is easier to understand the "Two natures, one person" formulation if we begin with the standpoint that it is in our nature to do good rather than to be corrupt because then we can more readily come to terms with Christmas human nature.
Year B, The First Sunday of Christmas; Added: 9th January 2009
We are all flawed and God knows best but prayer should still be argumentative.
Year C, The Eighth Sunday after Trinity; Added: 3rd September 2007
Today, simple choices are beyond us: sometimes we are Dives, sometimes Lazarus; we should never forget the power and wealth we have.
Year C, The Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity; Added: 24th October 2007
Jesus the gardener is interested in scrubby as well as opulent trees but his message only makes sense if we recognise that he has left us in charge of the garden.
Year C, The Third Sunday of Lent; Added: 27th March 2007
Sermons and Prayers for Lambeth: “Lord of All”
15.vi.08
Added: 15th July 2008
The stories of Bathsheba and the anointing woman are linked by a spurious implication of female allurement and adultery; but they are really about power and exploitation.
Year C, The Second Sunday after Trinity; Added: 3rd September 2007
King David and Mary Magdalen, on one interpretation, an ex prostitute who sat at the feet of Jesus, are linked not by their sin but by their penitence.
Year C, The First Sunday after Trinity; Added: 24th October 2007
We may no longer believe in sin and the devil or a Sacrament of Reconciliation but it is so easy to slip away from our relationship with God and we need the corporate support of the church in facing up to penitence.
Year C, The Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity; Added: 24th October 2007
The distinction between good and bad is not clear; when stewards act badly on our behalf the responsibility is ours.
The Ninth Sunday after Trinity; Added: 27th March 2007
If we accept that the Eucharist is part of our public mission and not simply an aid to our private piety, we will have made some progress along the missionary road which began with the passage of the Chosen People dry shod through the Red Sea.
Year C, The Fifth Sunday of Lent; Added: 1st August 2019
Is prayer the last taboo? Prayer is the religious equivalent of going to the gym; it should be full of "lively hope"; but there is no connection between asking and receiving.
Year C, The Twentieth Sunday after Trinity; Added: 24th October 2007
The Outrageous Demands of Jesus
Church attendance and obedience are not enough. What kind of "fishers of men" are we? We must witness in our daily lives and then we will better understand Isaiah's reply to the question: "Who shall I send?"
Year C, The Third Sunday before Lent; Added: 24th October 2007
We have the Holy Spirit and enough earthly resources to emerge from the Coronavirus crisis.
Year A, The Forth Sunday after Trinity; Added: 24th June 2020
The problem with advent is that this time of quiet runs in parallel with the restless preparations for Christmas; the purple of the Church competes with the red of the superstore.
Year C, The Second Sunday of Advent; Added: 9th February 2007
Words change their meaning through time (Vico) and those who do not accept this need to say when changes of meaning ceased. Reform and Mainstream are apparently rigid about meaning but question the Biblical meaning of church authority.
Year C, The Third Sunday of Epiphany; Added: 25th January 2007
We cannot think about war now the way we did 100 years ago; the default position must be peace, with all the unpleasantness that goes with it. The red poppy has been lukewarm to the peace agenda.
Year C, The Second Sunday before Advent; Added: 19th January 2008
As lost coins or lost sheep our proper response to the God that finds us is worship.
Year C, The Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity; Added: 30th September 2013
Liturgy
Compline for Shrove Tuesday (ii)
Added: 26th January 2010
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
Romans: The People's Bible Commentary
Dunn, James D.G.; Bible Reading Fellowship (2001)
ISBN: 9781841010823; Added: 5th February 2010
BCP Commentary
Added: 25th February 2009
Added: 25th February 2009
Added: 25th February 2009
Added: 25th May 2009
(August 24)
Added: 6th September 2009
(July 25)
Added: 6th September 2009
(June 24)
Added: 6th September 2009
(October 18)
Added: 6th September 2009
(September 21)
Added: 6th September 2009
(September 29)
Added: 6th September 2009
(June 29)
Added: 6th September 2009
Saint Simon and Saint Jude, Apostles
(October 28)
Added: 6th September 2009
Added: 25th May 2009
January 1st
Added: 4th November 2008
The Fifth Sunday after Trinity
Added: 25th May 2009
The Fourth Sunday after Trinity
Added: 25th May 2009
Added: 4th November 2008
December 28th
Added: 4th November 2008
The Presentation of Christ in The Temple
Commonly Called The Purification of Saint Mary The Virgin (February 2nd)
Added: 25th February 2009
The Seventh Sunday after Trinity
Added: 25th May 2009
The Third Sunday after the Epiphany
Added: 9th January 2009
The Twenty-First Sunday after Trinity
Added: 6th September 2009
Added: 25th February 2009