The Sunday lectionary reading (Trinity 9, Year C) continues on its journey through Luke's 'special section' of Jesus' ...

I have often heard it said that when God delivers us, he leads us from a sense of being trapped, hemmed in and confined to a ...

What is the connection between Jesus' name and the number eight? Why was it significant that Jesus was raised on the eighth ...

I would like to start a campaign, and it begins today: we should prohibit all use of the word 'church'. I suppose I should ...

The gospel lectionary reading for Trinity 9 in this Year C is Luke 12.49–56, continuing in a substantial section of teaching of Jesus gathered together by Luke. In this part of the gospel, we find ...

Perhaps the most striking thing about the ‘land’ within the OT narrative of Israel is that, contrary to one dimensional claims about promise and inheritance, it actually has multiple significance, and ...

The Sunday lectionary gospel for Trinity 8 in Year C is from Luke 12.32–40, and offers a slightly odd selection of verses, in that it includes the end of one section of Jesus' teaching—on trusting God ...

The lectionary reading for the Seventh Sunday after Trinity in Year C is the Parable of the Rich Fool in Luke 12.13–21. It is one of several parables that is unique to Luke, and includes features that ...

In the modern world, we live in an age of abundance of texts, and therefore we have to consider carefully the culture of the first century, and their very different relation to texts, when reading the ...