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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...

A look at Leviticus chapter 23 The Book of Leviticus has as its central theme holiness . 'Be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy'...

Leviticus is certainly not a book to curl up with on the sofa in front of a warm fire! In essence, it is a manual – an instruction manual...

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...

After being given the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai, Moses was given specific instructions by God concerning the building of the...

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

Is the Law of the Pentateuch still valid for Christians today? The first five books of the Bible, the Pentateuch, are known collectively...

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

400 years have passed since the adventures of Joseph and his brothers and the end of the Book of Genesis. Their descendants, the people...

‘Make the most of the next six weeks’, said my first vicar when I went to the 60th anniversary of his ordination, six weeks before my own...

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity always falls towards the end of January. (It is held in the last days of January to coincide with...

Memories of Christmas all too quickly fade into the background, and by the Feast of the Epiphany, most people are ready to tidy up their...

It may come as a surprise to discover that Christmas did not exist for the first three centuries of the Christian era. The great feast of...

O Come, O come Emmanuel. So begins one of the great Advent carols that often begins our Christmas celebrations. Each verse adds another...