A new report from Robin Gill and John Craven, Wasted Money in a Diminishing Church, has been doing the rounds, and it has ...

The term ‘love’ is clearly important in the New Testament in a range of contexts. But modern use of ‘love’ shifts its meaning into all sorts of different areas. One solution to this has been to ...

The late Richard Hays' book The Moral Vision of the New Testament was a landmark work that offered a serious, structured ...

There has been a growing movement claiming that Christianity calls for a certain kind of masculinity, protesting against a ...

Paul and his co-authors explain their approach to ministry, but do so by appeal to what the Thessalonians knew of them. They ...

Why was a faculty application for a portable baptismal pool in a church in Southwell and Nottingham rejected? What does that ...

The gospel reading for Trinity 20 in Year A is Matthew 22.15–22, the short exchange between Jesus and his opponents on the question of the Roman 'poll' tax. This has important theological implications ...

There has rarely been a timelier book inserted into public discourse as Simon Sebag Montefiore’s The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East. I opened its pages during the week of the third ...

The lectionary gospel for Trinity 19 in Year A is Matthew 22.1–14, the parable of the wedding banquet. This is the third of three parables about judgement in this section of the gospel, and these ...

Can we use humour in preaching? What does it do to help in engaging the listeners? What are the dangers and pitfalls? Was Jesus funny? Last Sunday week, after I preached at a church I am supporting ...