Readings for the Eighth Sunday after Trinity — the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost — for Year B in 2024 can be found here. In 2021, I wrote an exegesis for the Gospel reading for th… Read More

The Eighth Sunday after Trinity is July 21, 2024. Readings for Year B in 2024 can be found here. Emphases mine below. First Reading God the Father accepts King David’s good intentions… Read More

Last week ended with Guido Fawkes observing how ‘supine’ — his word — political reporters have been towards Sir Keir Starmer’s government, particularly Beth Rig… Read More

Over the past year at least, Sir Keir Starmer has said that Labour-run Wales is the ‘blueprint’ for what he wants to see elsewhere in the UK. Dear, oh dear. Vaughan Gething succe… Read More

Whatever Donald Trump wrote on social media at the weekend, one wonders what was really going through the 45th US president’s mind when that bullet grazed his right ear. It was the new… Read More

The three-year Lectionary that many Catholics and Protestants hear in public worship gives us a great variety of Holy Scripture. Yet, it doesn’t tell the whole story. My series Forbidd… Read More

The Seventh Sunday after Trinity — Eighth Sunday after Pentecost — is July 14, 2024. Readings for Year B can be found here. They are the same as those used in 2018. I previously… Read More

Labour’s first week in office with Sir Keir Starmer as Prime Minister has produced no surprises. As always, Guido Fawkes has the highlights. Labour: more of the same At the beginning o… Read More

The 2024 British general election turned out exactly as I had thought, with a Labour landslide. Sir Keir Starmer is the new Prime Minister. I went to Guido Fawkes for more insight. Results b… Read More

Readings for the Sixth Sunday after Trinity in 2024 (Year B) — July 7, 2024 — can be found here. My exegesis for the Gospel, Mark 6:1-13, is here. The Epistle is as follows (emph… Read More

Readings for the Sixth Sunday after Trinity in 2024 (Year B) — July 7, 2024 — can be found here. My exegesis for the Gospel, Mark 6:1-13, is here. The Epistle is as follows (emph… Read More

The Sixth Sunday after Trinity — the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost — is July 7, 2024. Readings for Year B, 2024, can be found here. Unlike Years A and C in the three-year Lectio… Read More

The Fifth Sunday after Trinity was June 30, 2024. Readings for Year B in 2024 can be found here. My exegesis on the Gospel, Mark 5:21-43, about our Lord’s healing of Jairus’s dau… Read More

The Fifth Sunday after Trinity — the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost — is June 30, 2024. Readings for Year B in 2024 can be found here. My exegesis on the Gospel, Mark 5:21-43, abou… Read More

The Fifth Sunday after Trinity — the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost — is June 30, 2024. Readings for Year B can be found here. For whatever reason, Year B readings change every thr… Read More

A number of traditionally Labour-voting or ‘Anyone-but-Conservative’ constituencies went True Blue in the last general election in 2019, when Boris Johnson was Prime Minister. Th… Read More

Will there be an eleventh-hour surprise in one of the most boring general election campaigns of recent history? Quite possibly. Final leaders debate On the evening of Wednesday, June 26, 202… Read More

We are now just over one week away from the general election in the United Kingdom. Will there be an eleventh-hour surprise? It looks doubtful. We are in stasis, with every party but Nigel F… Read More

The three-year Lectionary that many Catholics and Protestants hear in public worship gives us a great variety of Holy Scripture. Yet, it doesn’t tell the whole story. My series Forbidd… Read More

The Fourth Sunday after Trinity, the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, was June 23, 2024. Readings for Year B can be found here. The exegesis for the Gospel, Mark 4:35-41, can be found here. The… Read More

The Fourth Sunday after Trinity, the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, is June 23, 2024. Readings for Year B can be found here. The exegesis for the Gospel, Mark 4:35-41, can be found here. The… Read More

The Fourth Sunday after Trinity, the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, is June 23, 2024. Readings for Year B can be found here. The exegesis for the Gospel, Mark 4:35-41, can be found here. The… Read More

It is becoming increasingly clearer that Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is likely to become the UK’s next Prime Minister. We have only two weeks to go until the general election on Thu… Read More

The three-year Lectionary that many Catholics and Protestants hear in public worship gives us a great variety of Holy Scripture. Yet, it doesn’t tell the whole story. My series Forbidd… Read More

Yesterday’s post featured verses 6 through 10 of this Epistle for the Third Sunday after Trinity in Year B, 2024. Today’s post concludes with verses 11 through 17. The Epistle is… Read More

Readings for the Third Sunday after Trinity, Year B, 2024 can be found here. An exegesis for the Gospel, Mark 4:26-34, can be found here. The Epistle is as follows, emphases mine: 2 Corinthi… Read More

The Third Sunday after Trinity is June 16, 2024. Readings for Year B can be found here. Year B readings change, so these are different to the ones from three years ago. Emphases mine below… Read More

As if the events of the 80th anniversary of D-Day were not enough to contrast historic heroism with petty politicking, the latter part of last week did little to put the British public&rsquo… Read More

The three-year Lectionary that many Catholics and Protestants hear in public worship gives us a great variety of Holy Scripture. Yet, it doesn’t tell the whole story. My series Forbidd… Read More

Readings for the Second Sunday after Trinity, Year B, for 2024 can be found here. While I would normally write about the Gospel reading, the first part of 2 Corinthians 4, verses 5 through 1… Read More

The Second Sunday after Trinity — the Third Sunday after Pentecost — is June 9, 2024. Readings for the current year in the Lectionary is Year B. Year B’s readings can diffe… Read More

We owe our ability to hold elections to those who fought and gave their lives so valiantly in two World Wars. Yesterday, June 6, was the 80th anniversary of D-Day, commemorating the Normandy… Read More

As I write on the morning of Thursday, June 6, 2024, D-Day ceremonies are taking place in Normandy and in England. The Guardian has the day’s schedule of events in British Summer Time… Read More

What an eventful week it was, considering that this is a boring general election campaign. Conservatives’ Boris gap still exists No Conservative has yet been able to fill the Boris Joh… Read More

The three-year Lectionary that many Catholics and Protestants hear in public worship gives us a great variety of Holy Scripture. Yet, it doesn’t tell the whole story. My series Forbidd… Read More

The First Sunday after Trinity — the Second Sunday after Pentecost — is June 2, 2024. This Sunday, which is the one after Trinity Sunday, is also known as Corpus Christi Sunday… Read More

My thanks to Liz Truss for having helped to negotiate the UK’s free trade agreement with Australia before she became Prime Minister. We now have Tim Tam biscuits on our supermarket she… Read More

The UK’s general election campaign got off to a spluttering start over the weekend, or should that be weakend? Conservative Party drain On Friday, May 24, 2024, Guido Fawkes published… Read More

On Friday, May 24, 2024, The Guardian reported that 2022 statistics show a record high in abortions performed in England and Wales (emphases mine): The number of abortions in England and Wal… Read More

The three-year Lectionary that many Catholics and Protestants hear in public worship gives us a great variety of Holy Scripture. Yet, it doesn’t tell the whole story. My series Forbidd… Read More

Trinity Sunday is May 26, 2024. Readings for Year B can be found here. My exegesis for the Gospel, John 3:1-17 — the story of Nicodemus — can be found here and the one for the Ep… Read More

On Wednesday afternoon, May 22, 2024, Rishi Sunak made a horrendous PR error. Before we get to that, just hours before at PMQs, the SNP’s Westminster leader Stephen Flynn MP asked Rish… Read More

On the morning of Wednesday, May 22, 2024, Conservative MP Craig Mackinlay returned to the House of Commons to rapturous applause. Normally, applause is forbidden in the chamber, but Speaker… Read More

The three-year Lectionary that many Catholics and Protestants hear in public worship gives us a great variety of Holy Scripture. Yet, it doesn’t tell the whole story. My series Forbidd… Read More

Pentecost Sunday, the last day of Eastertide, is considered to be the Church’s birthday. I hope that everyone reading this had a happy and blessed one! We are now in the season of Pent… Read More

Yesterday’s post featured the first half of the Gospel reading for Pentecost Sunday in Year B — John 15:26-27 and John 16:4b-15. That post has the full set of readings and an exe… Read More

The three-year Lectionary that many Catholics and Protestants hear in public worship gives us a great variety of Holy Scripture. Yet, it doesn’t tell the whole story. My series Forbidd… Read More

Yesterday’s post has the readings for the Seventh Sunday of Easter, Exaudi Sunday, for Year B, the exegesis for the First Reading and the exegesis for verses 6 through 12 of today&rsqu… Read More

The Seventh Sunday of Easter is May 12, 2024. This particular day is also referred to traditionally as Exaudi Sunday, so called because of the traditional Introit, taken from Psalm 17:1. The… Read More

Political stories abound this week, both north and south of the English border. Scotland: a postscript Following up on my May 7 post on Scotland’s new First Minister John Swinney, he h… Read More

Yesterday, someone online posted the following photo of a page from a history book: Someone else, replying to the image, said that it came from a volume by the famous British historian AJP… Read More

Last week, my entries concerned Scottish politics, namely the SNP’s (see here, here, here and here). With a swift resolution within a week of Humza Yousaf’s resignation as Party… Read More

The three-year Lectionary that many Catholics and Protestants hear in public worship gives us a great variety of Holy Scripture. Yet, it doesn’t tell the whole story. My series Forbidd… Read More

The Sixth Sunday of Easter is May 5, 2024. Readings for Year B can be found here. The Gospel is as follows (emphases mine): John 15:9-17 15:9 As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you;… Read More

Election news dominated British headlines on Friday, May 3, 2024 and will continue to do so over the weekend. In Scotland, news concerned an SNP leadership contest following Humza Yousaf&rsq… Read More

Yesterday’s post examined the outgoing Scottish First Minister’s — Humza Yousaf’s — time in Holyrood. The one before that discussed his resignation as First Min… Read More

Yesterday’s post discussed the resignation of Scotland’s First Minister, Humza Yousaf, on Monday, April 29, 2024. Today’s entry looks back at his career in the Scottish Par… Read More

On Thursday, April 25, 2024, the coalition government between Scotland’s Scottish National Party (SNP) and Scottish Greens dissolved. Guido Fawkes reported (red emphases his): Humza Yo… Read More

Someone online posted the link to a 2016 article from Scotland’s Daily Record, ‘Photographer reveals the gritty pictures of poverty stricken Glasgow too shocking to publish in 19… Read More

The three-year Lectionary that many Catholics and Protestants hear in public worship gives us a great variety of Holy Scripture. Yet, it doesn’t tell the whole story. My series Forbidd… Read More

The Fifth Sunday of Easter is April 28, 2024. Readings for Year B can be found here. The Gospel is as follows (emphases mine): John 15:1-8 15:1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is th… Read More

N.B.: New posts will be intermittent for the time being. Home responsibilities at the moment have overtaken my spare time. My apologies! At any rate, I hope to continue with exegeses of Lect… Read More

The three-year Lectionary that many Catholics and Protestants hear in public worship gives us a great variety of Holy Scripture. Yet, it doesn’t tell the whole story. My series Forbidd… Read More

The Fourth Sunday of Easter is April 21, 2024. Readings for Year B can be found here. An exegesis for the Gospel, John 10:11-18 (the Good Shepherd), is also available. The First Reading is a… Read More

Considering that she served fewer than 50 days in office, former British Prime Minister Liz Truss has a boldly titled new book that has just come out, Ten Years To Save the West: Lessons fro… Read More

What are we missing in our world today? A sense of fun. When did we last have fun? Probably when we came of age, anytime from our teenage years through to our early twenties. Those years are… Read More

Many of us think that Easter is but one day. There we would be mistaken. Eastertide runs all the way to Pentecost Sunday, which comes 50 days later. Sunday Lectionary readings continue to po… Read More

The three-year Lectionary that many Catholics and Protestants hear in public worship gives us a great variety of Holy Scripture. Yet, it doesn’t tell the whole story. My series Forbidd… Read More

The Third Sunday of Easter is April 14, 2024. Readings for Year B can be found here. The Gospel is as follows (emphases mine): Luke 24:36-48 24:36 While they were talking about this, Jesus h… Read More

Carrying on from Lionel Shriver’s pointers for spotting ‘the next mania’, here is a quote from Dietrich Bonhoeffer explaining why a stupid person is more dangerous than a m… Read More

On April 9, 2024, UnHerd posted an excellent essay from American author and social commentator Lionel Shriver, ‘How to spot the next mania’, in which she runs through the major o… Read More

It has become tiring to constantly — so it seems — hear and read that the Conservatives have plunged the UK into a cost of living crisis and that we are the only people on earth… Read More

The three-year Lectionary that many Catholics and Protestants hear in public worship gives us a great variety of Holy Scripture. Yet, it doesn’t tell the whole story. My series Forbidd… Read More

On Sunday, April 7, 2024, The Telegraph‘s economics correspondent Liam Halligan, who, sadly, recently left GB News, told us ‘For good economic news, the Tories have an obvious ch… Read More

The Second Sunday of Easter is April 7, 2024. This particular Sunday, which features the Gospel reading of the encounter between Thomas the Apostle and Jesus regarding His wounds, is traditi… Read More

Dehenna Davison was one of the rising stars of the 2019 Conservative MP intake. Unfortunately, she is not standing for re-election. Amazingly, she was the first Conservative to win in the no… Read More

‘What have the Romans ever done for us?’ is the tongue-in-cheek British question. In terms of architecture and infrastructure, quite a lot, actually. Furthermore, in 2023 and 202… Read More

Seasoned home bakers know that measurements are everything. Most know about the differences between metric, American and British measurements. However, sometimes, despite our best efforts at… Read More

Privately, many Christians in England celebrated Easter with much joyful reverence. Publicly, the media covered the greatest feast day in the Church year quite differently. It’s not th… Read More

The three-year Lectionary that many Catholics and Protestants hear in public worship gives us a great variety of Holy Scripture. Yet, it doesn’t tell the whole story. My series Forbidd… Read More

Happy Easter, everyone! He is risen! The readings for Easter Day are many. Year B’s are here. Also available are an exegesis for another Epistle, Acts 10:34-43 (Peter’s preaching… Read More

Yesterday’s post — the first part — has links to the readings for and exegeses of the Epistle and Gospel for Good Friday. Yesterday’s exegesis for this reading covere… Read More

Readings for Good Friday can be found here. Also available are exegeses for the Epistle, Hebrews 10:16-25, and the Gospel, John 18. The First Reading is as follows (emphases mine): Isaiah 52… Read More

Readings for Maundy Thursday — Holy Thursday — can be found here. Exegeses are also available for the Epistle, 1 Corinthians 11:23-26, and the Gospel, John 13:1-17, 31b-35, both… Read More

Readings for Wednesday of Holy Week can be found here. Traditionalists also call this day Spy Wednesday, because spies at the temple wanted to know our Lord’s whereabouts every day aft… Read More

Readings for Tuesday of Holy Week can be found here. An exegesis on the Epistle, 1 Corinthians 1:18-31, and one on the Gospel, John 12:20-36, are also available. The First Reading is as foll… Read More

Readings for the Monday of Holy Week can be found here. Previous posts for the readings include exegeses on the Epistle, Hebrews 9:11-15 (Christ as the true tabernacle), and the Gospel, John… Read More

The three-year Lectionary that many Catholics and Protestants hear in public worship gives us a great variety of Holy Scripture. Yet, it doesn’t tell the whole story. My series Forbidd… Read More

Palm Sunday is March 24, 2024. Readings for Year B’s Liturgy of the Palms can be found here. The Lectionary editors give us a Psalm and the choice of one of two Gospels. My post also i… Read More

On Tuesday, March 19, 2024, UnHerd‘s Mary Harrington had an excellent article on who governs the UK, ‘Penny Mordaunt: the perfect head for the headless Tories’. I will skip… Read More

Yesterday’s post was about the recent Guardian articles on the all-male Garrick Club in London’s theatreland. It should be noted that the Garrick is far from being the only prest… Read More

For whatever reason, Britain’s pre-eminent private members’ club for men, The Garrick, has appeared in the press again this week. For the benefit of younger readers, let’s… Read More

A number of lesser-known British news items have popped up in the past week. Let’s have a look. UK’s redwood trees more abundant than in the US That headline will leave my Califo… Read More

Much has been made in recent months of British MPs who are standing down at the next general election, anticipated to be held later in 2024. The three main reasons for this are constituency… Read More

The three-year Lectionary that many Catholics and Protestants hear in public worship gives us a great variety of Holy Scripture. Yet, it doesn’t tell the whole story. My series Forbidd… Read More

The Fifth Sunday in Lent is March 17, 2024, which also happens to be St Patrick’s Day. This particular Sunday is also known as Passion Sunday, the beginning of the two-week Lenten peri… Read More

Illegal immigration from across the Channel is a hot topic in England. If anyone missed two reports from earlier in March 2024 about migrants who want to leave the UK, here they are, courtes… Read More

The Conservatives really need to use their time left in this Parliament to capitalise on the good economic news coming Britain’s way. British business confidence up On Tuesday, March 1… Read More

The big political news of Monday, March 11, 2024, was Lee Anderson’s defection to Reform. One week ago, I wrote about Anderson’s criticism of London Mayor Sadiq Khan and the MP&r… Read More

The three-year Lectionary that many Catholics and Protestants hear in public worship gives us a great variety of Holy Scripture. Yet, it doesn’t tell the whole story. My series Forbidd… Read More