Ordinary Time
Lectionary resources in a generous key

Most of the year is ordinary. So is where God lives.

Weekly resources, study courses and liturgy for preachers and lay leaders who take scripture seriously and people more seriously still. Written by a serving minister; tested in real chapels before it reaches you.

The Tuesday Essay launches this autumn; free, no card, no catch.

RCL-rooted · every Sunday covered Editable files · adapt everything Small chapels free · 19 or fewer, just ask Open books · annual accounts note
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The Weekly

Sunday is always coming.

Every Tuesday, next Sunday's readings taken seriously: honest scholarship, a liberationist eye, and material you can stand up with. The essay is free to everyone; the working pack is for subscribers.

Free · every week

The Tuesday Essay

The coming Sunday's texts read with open eyes; what they say, what they cost, where they press on the week's news. Ends with three questions worth stealing.

£0 for everyone, for good

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The Discipleship Courses

Taken slowly, read generously.

Complete multi-session discipleship courses: facilitator brief for the nervous leader, participant workbook, slides, infographics and a companion podcast. Built for groups where nobody holds a theology degree, and nobody needs to.

Gospel
Mark Good news, in a hurry. Six sessions · available this autumn
Authentic Pauline

The seven letters scholarship agrees came from Paul's own hand, taken in the order he wrote them.

1 Thessalonians The oldest words we have. Five sessions · coming soon
Galatians Freedom, argued. Six sessions · in the pipeline
1 Corinthians One loaf, many quarrels. Six sessions · in the pipeline
2 Corinthians Strength, reconsidered. Six sessions · in the pipeline
Philippians Joy, from a cell. Five sessions · in the pipeline
Philemon The shortest revolution. In the pipeline
Romans Rescued from its reputation. In the pipeline
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Subscriptions

What it costs.

Founding prices, confirmed at launch. Cancel whenever you like; the unsubscribe button works as well as the subscribe one.

Individual

The Weekly

£6 a month, or £60 a year

The full pack, every Tuesday, for one preacher or leader.

  • Exegetical briefing
  • Two full sermons
  • Lay-led Bible study
  • Intercessions
  • Children's material
Church licence

The Weekly, shared

from £60 a year

Everything in Individual, shared freely across your church's preachers, worship leaders and study groups.

  • Up to 60 members — £60 a year
  • 61 to 150 members — £120 a year
  • Above 150 members — £180 a year
Supporter

Carry a chapel

£10 a month

Everything in Individual; the margin keeps the resources free for a small chapel that pays nothing. The annual note shows exactly where supporter money went.

Nineteen members or fewer? Everything is free. One short email from your minister or steward to hello@ordinarytime.uk is all it takes; cost is never the barrier.

Discipleship courses are priced per course as they arrive; subscribers get first sight and a subscriber price.

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Principles

Priced like we mean the theology.

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Tested before sold

Everything is preached and studied first across a working circuit on the Kent coast. If it doesn't hold a real congregation on a wet Sunday, it isn't published.

II

The small stay free

Churches of nineteen members or fewer receive everything free; one short email from a minister or steward is all it takes, because cost should never be the barrier. Supporter subscriptions carry them.

III

Open books

Once a year we publish a plain note on what came in and where it went. Resources for the church should not be a mystery to the church.

God is present in the ordinary, the broken and the searching. We write for the church that believes it.
— the Ordinary Time manifesto
Begin here

The Tuesday Essay, free, every week.

Next Sunday's readings, taken seriously, in your inbox each Tuesday morning; for readers who would rather wrestle with the text than skim it. The sign-up opens with the first issue this autumn. Until then, send an email and I'll add you to the first list by hand.

Email hello@ordinarytime.uk

No spam, no sharing of your details; just the first issue when it lands.