Tag: Sunday

1st Sunday after Trinity

WHEN Philip Pullman wrote the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials, he imagined every human being as having a “daemon”, a spirit-self. In doing so, he provided one way of looking at “demons” (the spelling varies, but the same…

Sunday and Heart and Soul

IT WAS nice to have a genuinely meaty debate on Sunday (Radio 4). Hamit Coskun’s conviction for public-order offences after burning a Qur’an outside the Turkish Consulate in London has led to allegations that blasphemy laws…

Trinity Sunday

I BEGAN by wishing that the NRSV, AV, RSV, and NIV were all correct. The promise is so familiar: that, when he comes, the Spirit “will guide you into all the truth”. The New Jerusalem Bible steps cautiously away from the…

Pentecost (Whit Sunday)

THERE is a temptation to bypass the first seven verses of this Gospel and go straight to verses 16-17 and 26-27, in which Jesus refers to promising the disciples the gift of the Holy Spirit. On Pentecost Sunday, it makes…