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 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
Pastoral Care Training Pack: “Unit 7: Money - The Lilies of the Field”
Added: 5th June 2009
Study Sheets
Added: 3rd September 2007
Added: 28th April 2011
Bauckham, Richard: Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospel as Eyewitness Testimony
Added: 14th April 2010
Added: 27th March 2007
Added: 30th June 2015
Evagrius: The Seven Deadly Sins, Origins: “History of Sin”
Added: 3rd February 2011
Added: 9th February 2007
Genesis Overview: Babel, Shem to Abraham, Abraham's Call and Departure; End of Primeval History
Added: 6th December 2016
Added: 13th November 2006
Added: 30th June 2015
Added: 28th April 2011
Added: 27th March 2007
Added: 13th November 2006
Added: 10th September 2009
Added: 23rd April 2007
Added: 3rd September 2007
Added: 23rd April 2007
Added: 9th February 2007
Added: 23rd April 2007
Added: 9th February 2007
Added: 13th November 2006
Richard Burridge: John Chapters 3-4
Added: 10th September 2009
The Eucharist of Christendom, 30-1520 AD
Added: 13th November 2006
Added: 9th February 2007
Added: 9th February 2007
Added: 2nd February 2011
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
Jesus asked Peter if he loved him not because he did not know the answer but because he wanted Peter to continue to ask himself that question. Love is not deal making it goes and it goes and it goes. The more space you make in love the more we can make and the more there is for us.
Year C, The Third Sunday of Easter; Added: 23rd April 2007
The difference between human and divine love is that humans talk about beloveds but don't share them; but the quintessential desire of the spiritual lover is to share.
Year C, The Seventh Sunday of Easter (Sunday after Ascension Day); Added: 28th May 2007
As the Chosen People the Jews necessarily had a problem with difference; but we are equal before God in the power of the Good News.
Year B, The Fifth Sunday of Easter; Added: 9th February 2007
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
Literal and Literary Biblical Interpretation
There is a long tradition in the English Speaking world of viewing The AV Bible as great literature which contrasts with a requirement that it be understood literally. The accounts of Solomon and a baby and one of Peter's trials can be read at many levels. We should compare a theory of theological stasis with Newman's organic model.
Year A, The Ninth Sunday after Trinity; Added: 28th July 2008
John's "New Commandment", driven by the Holy Spirit within Peter, brings about a revolution, the recognition that non Jews can be Christians. Grace is our means of living the Commandment, in spite of the deluge of temptation.
Year C, The Fifth Sunday of Easter; Added: 24th October 2007
The institutional church has tended to hijack the Holy Spirit as its own private property.
Year A, The Second Sunday of Easter; Added: 7th April 2008
The point on the axis of time over which we have most control is the present.
Year A, The Eleventh Sunday after Trinity; Added: 29th February 2024
Church leaders who style themselves "Orthodox" or "Authentic" are endangering the "Anglican Spirit" of toleration by seeking to impose a high degree of confessional detail and oppression. Bishops should be shepherds not security guards. If we think of The Church as an aircraft, it will crash if we put operating procedures above ensuring that we have enough fuel, in the form of love, to stay airborne; all the instruments are on red.
Year A, The Fifth Sunday of Easter; Added: 28th April 2008
Peace is not an absence nor an escape into emptiness, it is being open to the Spirit, imitating Jesus and making an unconditional offer to God. When we exchange The Peace it is not ours but the peace of the Cross.
Year C, The Sixth Sunday of Easter; Added: 24th October 2007
Saint Paul cannot be easily characterised from a moral standpoint; ultimately he ranks love above moral judgement.
Year A, Peter and Paul, Apostles; Added: 14th July 2014
I have some sympathy for Thomas; but we know that something cataclysmic happened between Good Friday and Pentecost, that his Disciples believed that Jesus was truly present with them and that nobody doubted the significance of these events.
Year C, The Second Sunday of Easter; Added: 23rd April 2007
BCP Commentary
Added: 25th May 2009
(November 30)
Added: 25th February 2009
(June 11)
Added: 6th September 2009
(August 24)
Added: 6th September 2009
(July 25)
Added: 6th September 2009
(October 18)
Added: 6th September 2009
(April 25)
Added: 25th February 2009
(June 29)
Added: 6th September 2009
Saint Philip and Saint James’s Day
(May 1)
Added: 25th February 2009
Saint Simon and Saint Jude, Apostles
(October 28)
Added: 6th September 2009
December 26th
Added: 4th November 2008
Added: 25th February 2009
Added: 25th May 2009
(January 25)
Added: 25th February 2009
or the Manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles (January 6th)
Added: 9th January 2009
The Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity
Added: 6th September 2009
or the Second Sunday before Lent
Added: 9th January 2009
Added: 25th February 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
Added: 25th May 2009
Added: 25th May 2009