In this season of Creationtide, Michael Bayley uses the experience recounted by Florence Allshorn, a missionary in Uganda, to illustrate what God's transforming love is all about.

There are things that are tough for us to hear, and as hard to put into practice. Jonathan Williamson takes us to the advice Paul sent to the Romans in this morning's epistle.

The word 'church' barely appears in the synoptic gospels. Focusing on Matthew 16.13–20, Ian Wallis examines why this is the case before exploring what this passage reveals about the church community behind this Gospel.

Felicity Cowling-Green takes the Zimbabwean theologian Isabel Mukonyora's experience of a 'sacred wilderness' as her starting-point for thinking about the parable of the Feeding of the Multitude

Today, we welcome Sasha Isabella Smith in baptism into the community of St Mark's, Jonathan Williamson examines the parable of the mustard seed.

Susan Vinall, Reader at St Cuthbert's Firvale, analyses the parable of the wheat and the tares

Michael Bayley finds comfort and hope in today’s Bible readings, and shows us how our faith can be a source of solace and resolution

Helena Roulston explores with the congregation how light is a source of guidance

Janet Morley sees Paul’s ‘justification by faith’ as a radical outpouring of God’s love into our hearts.