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 2006: The People of God: “Unit Five - Civil Partnerships”
How important is this issue? Why are some people in the Church so inflamed about homosexual people? What is the relationship between theology, ethics and natural science? Is homosexuality natural, inherited, socially acquired, or sinful? To what extent are homosexual people worthy to be people of God?
Added: 17th October 2006
Lent Course 2008: Christ on Trial: “Mark: Voices at Midnight”
Added: 20th February 2008
Pastoral Care Training Pack: “Unit 2: Listening - The God Who Listens”
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 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
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
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: 13th November 2006
Added: 13th November 2006
Added: 30th June 2015
Added: 30th June 2015
Paul Bradshaw: Eucharist Origins
Added: 10th September 2009
Richard Burridge: John Chapter 6
Added: 10th September 2009
The Eucharist of Christendom, 30-1520 AD
Added: 13th November 2006
Added: 13th November 2006
Added: 9th February 2007
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 - Synoptics
Added: 15th July 2008
Sermons
Bonhoeffer & Costly Discipleship
We do not witness to God monastically but in a difficult and corrupted world; but how can we spread the good news if we give up thinking about it when we reach puberty? As Bonhoeffer says, there is no such thing as cheap grace. Managing the Church's decline is not enough.
Year B, The Forth Sunday before Lent; Added: 6th March 2007
Our peculiar burden is to be unflinchingly open hearted and open minded in the face of human failure and intolerance. Goodness can be the most seductive sin of all.
Year B, The Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity; Added: 13th November 2006
The Transfiguration is an account of continuity, transcendence and the human/divine relationship.
Year B, The Sunday next before Lent; Added: 27th February 2012
The solid bourgeoisie are always gong to be at the back of the queue for heaven behind the poor and needy and the only way to improve our place it to serve them.
Year B, The Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity; Added: 17th October 2006
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
How would we feel if the Government enacted tough new laws on asylum seekers? It is the people we despise most that Jesus loved most. Justice is not good enough; we must love and serve.
Year B, The Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity; Added: 17th October 2006
Even though we have unprecedented control over our lives, we are prone to victimhood. We have devalued the word "love"; Jesus died because of who he was and what we are; he was a victim of his own love. We are still chopping down the tree and forging the nails.
Added: 24th October 2007
Our trouble is that we think we are the New Testament leper and are superior about Naaman; what matters is how we come to God, how we maintain our faith and are prepared to make sacrifices; but, remember, for all his poor behaviour, Naaman was cured.
Year B, The Third Sunday before Lent; Added: 6th March 2007
We make promises for all kinds of reasons, sometimes sinful; and the readings contrast the shallowness of human promises with the depth of God's promise. Unlike Herod who couldn't deliver "anything you want" God can. We should concentrate on our own promises to God and not worry how well others appear to be keeping theirs.
Year B, The Forth Sunday after Trinity; Added: 24th October 2007
God's white light of grace passes through us to create earthly colours; the greater danger is not dirt but the contemporary tendency of selecting colours.
Year B, The Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity; Added: 13th November 2006
The metaphor of the shepherd and the sheep is only of limited value; we are called upon to exercise our consciences and Bishops should be more than 'Of Flock'.
Year B, The Sixth Sunday after Trinity; Added: 22nd July 2009
The recent move by the House of Bishops to refer the issue of women bishops to the whole General Synod shows how the simple division between sheep and shepherds no longer applies.
Year B, The Sixth Sunday after Trinity; Added: 17th October 2006
The Apostles turned to Jesus in a crisis, as we often do; but prayer is not solely intercessory; we need to build up the discipline of prayer to bring us closer to the pulse of the heart of God.
Year B, The First Sunday after Trinity; Added: 24th October 2007
The problem of humility is that it can easily be inverted into pride.
Year B, The Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity; Added: 10th October 2012
The New Testament leper's story is relatively simple; but it is difficult being powerful and flawed, like Naaman. We think we are like the leper but we're more like Naaman.
Year B, The Third Sunday before Lent; Added: 6th March 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
BCP Commentary
Added: 25th February 2009
Added: 25th February 2009
Added: 25th February 2009
(August 24)
Added: 6th September 2009
(July 25)
Added: 6th September 2009
(June 24)
Added: 6th September 2009
(April 25)
Added: 25th February 2009
(September 21)
Added: 6th September 2009
(June 29)
Added: 6th September 2009
Saint Simon and Saint Jude, Apostles
(October 28)
Added: 6th September 2009
December 26th
Added: 4th November 2008
The Annunciation of The Blessed Virgin Mary
(March 25)
Added: 25th February 2009
The Seventh Sunday after Trinity
Added: 25th May 2009
Added: 25th February 2009
Added: 25th February 2009