What do you find most irritating about this time of year? The drawing in of dark and cold nights? The hideous adoption of that consumerist import 'Black Friday'? People putting up Christmas trees when ...

Advent is once more upon us (pun intended!), and with it comes two sets of confusion: the idea that Advent is the ...

I write a quarterly column for Preach magazine, in which I explore a significant word or phrase in the Bible, or a theme or ...

In all three Synoptic gospels, Jesus concludes a conversation about the contrast between his teaching and practice and that ...

The Sunday gospel lectionary reading for Advent 1 in Year C is Luke 21.25–36, from this gospel’s version of what is often ...

The Sunday gospel lectionary reading for Advent 1 in Year C is Luke 21.25–36, from this gospel’s version of what is often called the ‘Little Apocalypse’. As usual, we need to read on to put this text ...

It is often thought that in John 18 Jesus says 'My kingdom is not of this world'. But this mistranslation is misleading: his ...

Justin Welby’s resignation as Archbishop of Canterbury is truly unprecedented. No archbishop has ever, in the history of the ...

This Sunday, the last of the liturgical year, is Christ the king, and comes immediately before Advent. It is a slightly odd ...

Advent is once more upon us (pun intended!), and with it comes two sets of confusion: the idea that Advent is the anticipation of Christmas (when it is really about looking forward to Jesus’ return ...

The theme for the Tyndale Fellowship New Testament Study Group in 2025 is Eschatology in the New Testament, and we are ...