At Diocesan Synod in March Bishop Steven encouraged a greater focus on children’s and youth ministry across the diocese.

Bishop Steven addressing diocesan synodSteven Buckley

Pentecost

Here is a vital part of the Christian story, unknown now outside the Church and often neglected within it. The world preserves a memory of Jesus birth. The world preserves a memory of Jesus as a healer and teacher. The world remembers, when…

Adventurous and courageous leadership

The following text, adapted for the blog, is the core of a keynote address on leadership, given by Bishop Steven to over 500 Christian leaders at the 4th Forum christlicher Führungskräfte in Fribourg, Switzerland in March 2018. The keynote…

A Compassionate Church: Colossians

“So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God”(3.1). (The following Bible study was recorded at the Living Waters clergy conference. View it here on YouTube) In…

A Courageous Church: Colossians 1.24-2.15

“I, Paul, became a servant, a minister, a deacon of this gospel. I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake and in my flesh I am completing what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church”. (The…

A Contemplative Church: Colossians 1.1-23 

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother.  To the saints and faithful brothers and sisters in Christ in Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. Welcome to this series of Bible readings on…

The River of Life: Ezekiel 47.1-12

Bishop Steven's Opening Address to the Living Waters Clergy Conference “Then he brought me back to the entrance of the temple; there water was flowing from below the threshold of the temple towards the east…” (The following address…

The only way is Ethics

Developing Artificial Intelligence in the UK   For the past year, I’ve been a member of the House of Lord’s Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence. The Committee of 13 members received 223 pieces of written evidence and took…

Resurrection

This sermon was delivered by Bishop Steven at the Choral Eucharist on Easter Day (1st April) at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.  Happy Easter. The Lord is risen. Today is the 1st April and it seems a very good day to announce my plans…