Bible readers, upon opening the New Testament, encounter the long list of names that begins the Gospel of Matthew and we work our way through them not really taking them in. It is a common experience to find such genealogies challenging or indeed uninteresting
One of the great joys of reading the Bible with the mind of the Church is spotting the threads of divine gold woven through its pages. A story that begins in a garden finds its astonishing conclusion in a city-garden, and the One who spoke the first “Let there be light” is the same Lamb who is its eternal lamp.
The recent appointment of a Dame Sara Mullally to the seat of Archbishop of Canterbury may well represent the culmination of decades of theological drift within the Church of England. While it is easy to view such an event merely as another step in the Church’s journey towards “inclusion,” it might also be seen, through the eyes of faith, as a sober act of divine judgement. The question before us is not one of equality or culture, but of fidelity to the revealed will of God and the order He has established for His Church.
It’s amazing what you think about as you cycling in the morning, going nowhere fast in the gym and today was no different. I write this on Tuesday 7th October 2025 and yesterday, as I was driving home there was a most amazing moon.
When reason is untethered from revelation, it quickly becomes its own god. It is with a heavy heart that one observes the current state of the Church of England and its wider Communion. There is a palpable sense of disquiet, a feeling that the foundations laid by the martyrs and Read more
I stood in the bright sunlight of deepest Norfolk, my friend David had walked slightly ahead to the reception area, a place as far from my theological home as I could imagine. Before me was the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham. A gnawing sense of trepidation, a legacy perhaps Read more
Or how I learned to embrace wholeheartedly the will of God through Mary’s yes. Human life finds its deepest meaning when understood within the grand narrative of God’s plan — what theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar called the “theo-drama.” A personal note: If you know me at all, you’ll know that I Read more
