
Prayer for the Nation
As the UK's Covid-19 death toll sadly reaches 100,000 people, Bishop Steven encourages listeners to join a Prayer for the Nation.

Intergenerational Fairness and Provision Committee report
The Rt Revd Steven Croft's speech in the House of Lords on Tackling Intergenerational Unfairness, from 25 January.

Christmas Day sermon
We bear witness to the truth that Christmas has not been cancelled - to the profound truth that God became a human person for our sake.

Calling all children – Bishop Steven needs you!
This is a message for all the children in the Diocese of Oxford - Bishop Steven needs your help to make people smile this Christmas.

A response to overseas aid cuts
An open letter to MPs within the Diocese of Oxford regarding the announcement of cuts to Britain's overseas aid budget.


Humility and gentleness
A Presidential Address to the Oxford Diocesan Synod, September 2020 It’s very good to regather virtually after the summer and to begin what I guess will be a season of regathering in a thousand different places as we begin to rebuild together…

Rule of life
https://vimeo.com/450174772 I hope and trust you’ve had a break in August and that you are coming back refreshed to school or work or ministry – whatever your calling may be. Today’s readings seem really appropriate as we begin a…

Nothing but five loaves and two fish
What’s your favourite story in the gospels? It’s a question I like to ask when I visit churches for informal meetings. Time and again, over the years, the story that comes to the top of the list is today’s bible reading: the feeding of…
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 is at work beyond and outside the Christian community. Again the Holy Spirit […]