'Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow ... I was afraid, so I went and hid your talent in the ground'. The parable is so well-known, and so often interpreted in particular ways. Janet Morley encourages us to see another meaning in it.

'Lent comes providentially to awaken us from our lethargy' says Pope Francis. In the Lenten series on parables, Mark Newitt awakens us to the issues in the parable called the Shrewd, or perhaps Unjust, Manager - the different titles attributed to it being a sign of the challenges it raises.

Jonathan Williamson takes the readings on this, Church Action on Poverty Sunday, to explore what it means to radiate God's presence.

Richard Hide talks to us about his activities in the Democratic Republic of Congo

On this third Sunday before Lent, Beth Keith invites us to think of prophets as 'whistleblowers'. They say: 'This is what is happening. It is wrong. This is how it should be'...

Anesia Cook is the vocations advisor for the diocese of Sheffield, and vicar of St Peter and St Oswald's Church. In her sermon, she reminds us that God delights in our human diversity. Isaiah tells the people of their rebellion against God and invites them to change their ways. She invites us to join in the dance, and continue fighting for justice.

In this service, the choir sang Ralph Vaughan Williams' setting for the coronation service of Queen Elizabeth II, 'O Taste and See'. Jonathan Williamson invites us to do the same as he explores the miracle of the Wedding at Cana.

Epiphany is the festival observed on 6 January in the church calendar in commemoration of the coming of the Magi, presented as the first manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles in the Western Christian tradition. This Sunday, the day before Epiphany, we were also to celebrate a baptism, but a heavy downfall of snow prevented it from taking place in the service itself. Michael Bayley preached his sermon ‘virtually’ from home, linking the first reading to the twin themes of epiphany and baptism.

Why? The question that children always ask. Boyd Morgan takes that as his starting point in reflecting on how we learn from, and nurture, one another.

"The word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory"