This Sunday's lectionary reading for Advent 4 in Year A is Matt 1.18–25. It is a short reading, but laden with significance ...

The lectionary epistle reading for Advent 4 in Year A is Romans 1.1–7, which is a single sentence in Greek! Paul offers not ...

The fury over a Christmas carol event exposes the ideological gatekeeping hollowing out British Christianity. Jason Clark writes: Over the last few days, my social media feeds—shaped by the strange, ...

Contrary to popular tradition, Jesus was not born in a stable! Why? Because the 'manger' where he was laid was at the bottom ...

The lectionary epistle reading for Advent 4 in Year A is Romans 1.1–7, which is a single sentence in Greek! Paul offers not just an opening greeting, but a programmatic introduction to the whole of ...

When I first learnt New Testament Greek, the set text for our class was (slightly oddly!) 1 Peter. This has left me with an ...

The lectionary gospel reading for Advent 3 in Year A is Matt 11.2–11, and as usual is rather truncated, so you might want to extend the reading by a verse or two before and after to be fair to its ...

The epistle for Advent 3 in Year A is James 5.7–10. The lectionary makes an odd choice here, and we really need to read on to verse 11 as well. James here echoes much of the ethical teaching of Jesus, ...