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If I was feeling mean and vindictive, I would conduct a little test. What do you know about St. Bartholomew? But, I suspect, the test...

Overheard at the door of the church one Sunday: “Vicar, I didn't know what sin was until you came to the parish.” Or, as Paul writes, “do...

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant...

If you follow the church’s lectionary, Trinity Sunday has an important function. All of the Sundays for the next few months, up until the...

In the UK, it used to be a public holiday weekend. Nowadays, the ‘Spring Bank Holiday’ seldom coincides so, despite being second only in...

Falling as it does on a Thursday, Ascension Day is one of those festivals that can easily be overlooked, even by the faithful. It marks...

‘Every baptized Christian is baptized for service.’ (John Tiller: A Strategy for the Church's Ministry, 1983) When I was a theological...

As we look forward to the King's coronation in two day's time. We haven’t got much experience of coronations. Any of us below the age of...

The Scots celebrate St Andrew; the Welsh wear leeks for St David; the Irish go wild for St Patrick, so why is it that the English are so...

Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb and they asked each other, ‘Who will roll...

Trust the English to be different from everyone else! The death and resurrection of Jesus was originally celebrated in a single event –...

Hot Cross Buns are the traditional food for Good Friday – the cross being a pertinent reminder of the event of this day. This day is, of...

The great climax of Holy Week begins with our Lord’s celebration of the Last Supper, which St. Paul introduces by writing, ‘On the night...

Hosanna in the Highest! What did the crowd expect on that first Palm Sunday? They were living in an occupied land. They were longing for...

Passion Sunday, falling two weeks before Easter Sunday, draws our minds ever closer to the central fact of our faith. It points us to the...

Put on Love (Colossians 3:14) How much thought do you give to the clothes you wear? Do you just pull out the first shirt that comes from...

The Sundays of Lent are classed as feast days, so offer a chance to break from penitential rigours of the season, but the middle Sunday...

Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent. On this day, we begin our long period of preparation for Easter. The forty days of Lent have...

Safeguarding. I must be honest: safeguarding is not a word that has featured overmuch in the course of my ministry. When I was at...

A Light to Lighten the Gentiles..... The Presentation of Christ in the Temple (which falls on 2nd February), is a turning point in the...