The gospel lectionary reading for Lent 3 is John 4.5-42, probably the longest reading in the lectionary! The epistle is ...

Tim Goode is a residentiary canon in York Minster, having previously spent all his time since ordination in 2009 in parish ...

The epistle for Lent 3 is Romans 5.1–11; the gospel is Jesus' encounter with the woman at the well in John 4. In Romans 5, ...

Mention the word Samaritan and your understanding may be shaped by Revd Chad Varah and the listening Samaritans in Britain.

Today is the start of the liturgical season of Lent, and it has traditionally been a period of particular spiritual discipline for Christians. Though the Didache (from the end of the first century) ...

Last summer, with a little help, I reimagined how Synod would look to Anthony Trollope and Raymond Chandler, whom I had been ...

On this page, you can find an index to all the commentary articles on the gospel lectionary readings for the whole of Year A, together with links to the video discussions between Ian and James. The ...

The gospel reading in the lectionary for the last Sunday before Advent (now known as ‘Christ the King’) is Matthew 25.31–46, the so-called ‘parable of the sheep and the goats’. But it isn’t actually a ...

“Christ in the House of His Parents” by Sir John Everett Millais. One of the repeated themes of short Christmas expositions is that, in the nativity story, we see God coming to the ‘poor’, and as a ...

Last weekend, in an online conversation, someone highlighted to me the most recent ministry statistics, which were released in June, but seem to have gone under the radar. I certainly did not spot ...