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MY DAD, Jack Saynor, was a bomber pilot during World War II. He completed 38 operations with 10 Squadron during 1943-44, a remarkable number for a bomber crew at that time. He was shot down […]
WE CHRISTIANS tell a rather old story on 2 February as we celebrate the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple. This is the event recorded in St Luke’s gospel when Mary and Joseph fulfil Jewish […]
WHEN I was at theological college, one of our tutors asked us what we thought about posters on church noticeboards. I think he was expecting us to say they were boring, cheesy or generally a […]
JAMES (JIM) IRWIN, one of the astronauts on the Apollo 15 mission to the Moon in 1971, was a believer who had a spiritual encounter with God while on the lunar surface. It was a […]
AS WE enter November, so our memories of summer fade, and we turn to autumn proper, with Bonfire night and Remembrance Sunday. We have just left October behind, the month for Harvest Festivals. The harvest […]
IN AN EARLY episode of Grange Hill, (a BBC children’s programme from the early 1980s), something that’s always stuck with me… Girl 1: “I can’t come to the party on Sunday, I’ve got to go […]
What makes a community? ONE OF the main aims of ‘Caversham Bridge’, and one of the things it does so well, is to promote a sense of community in Caversham and Emmer Green. It has […]
You are nearer to God in a garden than anywhere else on Earth WHEN I WAS a child, my mother used to plait my hair in the mornings to get ready for school and she […]
Festivals Get to the Heart THE SUMMER festival season is in full swing and there’s a lot to look forward to. We’ve just had Glastonbury Festival; July starts with the Henley Festival, then Readipop, Flackstock, […]
I AM AN expert at losing things – phones, watches, earrings, keys, hearing aids, purse, you name it. One minute it is in my hand, the next it is nowhere to be found. The other […]
Dr Alison Johnston, Caversham Bridge, 2017 (Editors Login)