Digital Discipleship

Bishop Steven reflects on the concerns of young people on artificial intelligence, and the Church’s responsibility to be vigilant and human.

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Bishop Steven delivers his sermon at the clergy conference 2025diocese of oxford

The Household of Cornelius and the Conversion of Peter

The Household of Cornelius and the Conversion of Peter In Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of the Italian cohort as it was called. So begins the third in this sequence of stories of conversion. Again the Holy Spirit…
Bishop Steven delivers his sermon at the clergy conference 2025diocese of oxford

Saul on the Damascus Road and Ananias the Presybter

Saul on the Damascus Road and Ananias the Presybter We come this morning to the greatest of all of Luke’s stories of conversion in Acts, the story each of us will know well, the story Luke tells three times to underline its remarkable nature,…
Bishop Steven delivers his sermon at the clergy conference 2025diocese of oxford

The Ethiopian Eunuch and Philip the Deacon

The Future of News in our changing world

My Lords I welcome this timely report and this debate. The themes of the report are ethics, truth, access and trust, all of which are of vital importance to the Lords Spiritual as I hope to all members of your Lordships House. My colleague the…
Bishop Steven standing beside a fire at Christ Church Cathedral on Easter Eve.

The Lord is risen — An Easter Sermon

Alleluia, Christ is Risen. Today the Church celebrates new life: the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ from the dead. This is an event of global, of cosmic significance. Because Christ has been raised, those who belong to Christ will…
Shadow of palm leaves

Signs of hope on Palm Sunday

Bishop Steven reflects on the quiet revival taking place in our churches among Gen Z and young people for Palm Sunday.
Word Cloud for AI terms

Treasure in clay jars – Synod address

Bishop Steven's presidential address to Synod on 8 March 2025 celebrates the 'cracks in our pots' and the treasure in clay jars.

A big, warm invitation… Come and See!

Bishop Steven extends a warm invitation for you to Come and See what baptism is all about this Lent.

Bishop Steven questions how the government will generate trust in AI

Bishop Steven took part in a House of Lords debate on artificial intelligence on Monday, 10 February. His question to the Government was: According to the the Government's own recent survey,  43% of the public trust that the impact of AI…