As we reach the end of the lectionary year, we are going back to the beginning, to where we started in the Gospel of Mark!

The Sunday gospel lectionary for the Third Sunday before Advent at the end of this Year B is Mark 1.14-20, the beginning of ...

I write a quarterly column for Preach magazine, in which I explore a significant word or phrase in the Bible, or a theme or section of Scripture, and the ideas that it expresses. At the end of this ...

After much pre-publicity, which I reflected on at the time, The Widening of God’s Mercy: Sexuality within the Biblical Story (Yale University Press) has finally appeared. This enables an end to ...

The Sunday lectionary gospel reading for the Fourth Sunday before Advent in Year B is the dialogue that includes Jesus' ...

The Sunday lectionary gospel reading for the Fourth Sunday before Advent in Year B is the dialogue that includes Jesus’ ...

In September, Dr Logan Williams (University of Aberdeen) published a truly fascinating open-access academic article 'The Stomach Purifies All Foods: Jesus’ Anatomical Argument in Mark 7.18–19' in the ...