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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 […]
Walking with Jesus forever ON 16 JULY 1969, the Apollo 11 space flight began and history was made four days later when the first humans landed on the Moon. Charlie Duke was the voice on […]
What does Easter mean? APRIL ALWAYS coincides with the Easter period in the Christian Calendar. But what does Easter mean? I want to approach the question by asking you to look at the image accompanying […]
Dr Alison Johnston, Caversham Bridge, 2017 (Editors Login)