Does suffering matter? This is a question that many will have tried to answer, scouring philosophy textbooks from the safety ...

This Sunday's gospel lectionary reading for Advent 2 in Year C is Luke 3.1–6, the location and opening of John the Baptist's ...

This Sunday’s gospel lectionary reading for Advent 2 in Year C is Luke 3.1–6, the location and opening of John the Baptist’s ...

What do you find most irritating about this time of year? The drawing in of dark and cold nights? The hideous adoption of ...

Advent is once more upon us (pun intended!), and with it comes two sets of confusion: the idea that Advent is the ...

Gary Jenkins has previously written on this website about the Church of England and its struggle to engage with the working ...

In all three Synoptic gospels, Jesus concludes a conversation about the contrast between his teaching and practice and that ...

This Sunday’s gospel lectionary reading for Advent 2 in Year C is Luke 3.1–6, the location and opening of John the Baptist’s ministry. We will hear more about the content of John’s ministry next week; ...

I write a quarterly column for Preach magazine, in which I explore a significant word or phrase in the Bible, or a theme or ...

Gary Jenkins has previously written on this website about the Church of England and its struggle to engage with the working class. In 2020, following a debate in General Synod, he concluded with this ...

The Sunday gospel lectionary reading for Advent 1 in Year C is Luke 21.25–36, from this gospel’s version of what is often ...

This Sunday’s gospel lectionary reading for Advent 2 in Year C is Luke 3.1–6, the location and opening of John the Baptist’s ministry. We will hear more about the content of John’s ministry next week; ...