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 members or fewer 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 Courses

Paul, without the flat readings.

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

Mark Good news, in a hurry. Available at launch · workbook · podcast
Galatians Freedom, argued. Six sessions · coming soon
1 Corinthians One loaf, many quarrels. Six sessions · coming soon
2 Corinthians Strength, reconsidered. Six sessions · coming soon
Philippians Joy, from a cell. Five sessions · coming soon
1 Thessalonians The oldest words we have. Five sessions · coming soon
Next Romans. In the pipeline
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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.

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The small stay free

Churches of nineteen members or fewer receive everything without charge, no questions asked. Supporter subscriptions carry them.

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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
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