The Sunday's lectionary reading for the Third before Advent in Year C is Luke 20.27–38. Once more, the lectionary makes an odd choice; it would be more natural to read on to verse 40 and complete the ...

Although 2 Thess 2 (the lectionary epistle for the third Sunday before Advent) is not read much in churches, it has been hugely influential, in its ideas of the 'man of lawlessness', and the ...

Last week, King Charles III and Pope Leo IV made history in the Sistine Chapel by praying side by side—a first for the ...

Marginally later than in some previous years, the full details of the annual returns on attendance for the Church of England ...