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 Four - Women and the Episcopate”
How important is this issue? We are still living in the aftermath of the decision of the Church to admit women to the priesthood. Is admitting women as bishops a logical step or is there something different about being a bishop from being a priest? What can we learn from the controversy over women priests? What qualities do we expect from our bishops?
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
Pastoral Care Training Pack: “Introduction”
Added: 5th June 2009
Pastoral Care Training Pack: “Unit 1: Overview - Beginning the Journey”
Added: 5th June 2009
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 9: Prayer & Scripture - Watch and pray”
Added: 5th June 2009
Meditations
Holy Week 2020: “Maundy Thursday”
Added: 24th June 2020
Holy Week 2020: “The Easter Vigil and First Mass of Easter”
Added: 24th June 2020
Study Sheets
Added: 3rd September 2007
Added: 28th April 2011
Church Music 1: The First Thousand Years
Added: 30th June 2015
Added: 30th June 2015
Ethics: Judgment, Morality and Justice
Added: 18th November 2007
Added: 30th June 2015
Added: 28th April 2011
Added: 30th June 2015
Added: 23rd April 2007
Paul Bradshaw: Eucharist Origins
Added: 10th September 2009
Added: 7th November 2006
Richard Burridge: John Chapter 6
Added: 10th September 2009
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: 30th June 2015
Thiselton, Anthony: The Last Things: A New Approach
Added: 12th November 2012
Vermes, The Changing Faces of Jesus - Acts
Added: 15th July 2008
Vermes, The Changing Faces of Jesus - Paul
Added: 15th July 2008
Sermons
A distinction needs to be drawn between Christian art and the Christian view of art. Attitudes to art largely reflect attitudes towards the relationship between the divine and human: one model portrays humanity as 'inferior' to God whereas the other considers this to be a category error bordering on idolatry and looks at incarnational humanity as fundamentally creative. Although much art is necessarily concerned with love and death, a large corpus deals with suffering; and for this reason we should occasionally rejoice.
Added: 24th October 2008
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
God the Creator and Jesus God in History always keep their promises
Year C, The Fifth Sunday after Trinity; Added: 1st August 2019
We need to give beyond what is comfortable but there is no giving without taking; we must be brave for Christ but vulnerable to him.
The Fifth Sunday after Trinity; Added: 27th March 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
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
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
Reviews
Jesus: A Portrait: “Chapter 1: The Beauty of Jesus”
ISBN: 0232527199; Added: 22nd June 2009
Women and Men in Scripture and The Church
Added: 10th March 2014
BCP Commentary
Added: 25th February 2009
(June 11)
Added: 6th September 2009
Saint Simon and Saint Jude, Apostles
(October 28)
Added: 6th September 2009
(January 25)
Added: 25th February 2009
The Eighth Sunday after Trinity
Added: 25th May 2009
Added: 4th November 2008
The Second Sunday after the Epiphany
Added: 9th January 2009
The Sunday Called Quinquagesima
or the Next Sunday before Lent
Added: 9th January 2009
The Tenth Sunday after Trinity
Added: 25th May 2009
Added: 25th February 2009