🎧(44 mins)The origins of Advent
Tom traces the history of the Season of Advent and why we celebrate the Feast of the Incarnation at Christmas before introducing the...
Mark Chpt. 11: When Jesus enters Jerusalem (and Christian Zionism)🎧(54 mins)
The scriptural and social background Tom explores shows how subversive Jesus was. St. Mark’s careful structuring of the entry into...
Embracing the Way 🎧(1hr. 2 mins)
The apostles’ reaction to Jesus’ insistence that he must go to Jerusalem to die showed that the way of the cross was the opposite in all...
🎧(48 mins)Sunday Readings, Receiving the Word
In the first half, Tom explains the three year cycle of readings on Sunday and the choice of passages to be included was the result of...
🎧(53 mins)The Gospel of Matthew
Introduction to Matthew – Gospel Origins Kingdom Sermon on the Mount Beatitudes But I say to you... Pray... fast... give End Times
🎧(46mins) 'I am Risen...'
Understanding the way the Risen Jesus is present and how this presence changes things.
🎧(45 mins) "... and with you"
How is the resurrected Jesus different from the person before death?
🎧(1 hour 14 mins)Scriptural insights into the events and characters of the Passion of Jesus
The Last Supper The Garden of Gethsemene I The Garden of Gethsemene II Arrest Trials – Jewish Trials – Roman Holy Week
📖(8 min read) The Beloved Disciple
A ‘fictitious letter’ written by the ‘Beloved Disciple’, using imagination to lead us through the real events of Holy Week, and inviting...
🎧(52 mins)Passover of Jesus:
An examination of how treating the cross in isolation from Jesus' life and Resurrection often leads to a misunderstanding of why he died...
📖(10 min. read) Passover of Jesus I – The Last Week
Talk given in Bootle, 2009. 2660 words. The last week of Jesus’ life in the context of the whole of his life,
🎧(48 mins) + 📖(transcript) Passover of Jesus 2: Death of the Living One
2921 words After exploring and explaining the differences between the Gospel accounts of the death of Jesus, Tom outlines how, over the...
🎧(37 mins)+ 📖 (transcript)Passover of Jesus. 3: Supper and Garden
Talk given in Maghull, 2010 3573 words Tom explains the ancient roots of the Passover celebration...
🎧(46 mins)+ 📖(transcript) – Passover of Jesus 4: Trials
Talk given in Bootle, 2009 4720words Details of the timetable and technicalities of the trial before the Sanhedrin, with a detailed...
📖(2 min read) Holy Thursday. A meditation
Word count: 365 This is a short meditation, in the voice of a contemporary disciple, on the significance of the Last Supper within the...
📖(2 min read) HOMILY ON JOHN 4:1-26. on 30th Birthday of Ince Benet.
A brief reflection on the Samaritan woman at the well about our inner-thirst reflecting the prior thirst of God for us and saying YES to...
🎧(1 hour 50 mins.)Audio: Eucharist
An exploration of what we celebrate, and what we are drawn into, in the Eucharist through an examination of the four movements in the...
📖 (5 min read) Eucharist: Reflections with Help from Teilhard de Chardin
Tom considers the celebration of the Eucharist in four movements, reflecting on how it is a realistic Thanksgiving, not just of ‘all...