The Sunday lectionary reading for the Second Sunday before Advent in Year B is Mark 13.1–8. This feels a little odd, in that ...

Mark 13 is paradoxically a passage many find difficult and challenging—but one of our favourites to talk about! Popular ...

Note: please see link to sign the petition at the end of this article. Ann Onymous writes: Our late Queen famously once said ...

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 ...

Andrew Goddard writes: 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 ...

The Sunday lectionary gospel reading for the Fourth Sunday before Advent in Year B is the dialogue that includes Jesus’ summary of the law in Mark 12.28–34. Offering this kind of summary was not ...

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 ...