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A day of mixed emotions I WONDER what you do on Mothering Sunday? Is it a special day for you in some way? Does it involve cards, visits, presents? Is it a happy day? Or […]
TURN, TURN, TURN TO EVERYTHING (turn, turn, turn) there is a season (turn, turn, turn)… You almost certainly know the tune, and now have the words running through your mind like an unstoppable freight train. […]
It’s not fair! SITTING IN my chair on a cool November afternoon, I paused to consider what might be interesting to share with you. Considering what I will write will not be read until the […]
Remembering what Christmas is about ‘CHRISTMAS COMES but once a year’ – yet it always seems to come around more quickly than expected, despite being the best-known date in the UK calendar! So, no doubt […]
Giant steps are what we take, walking on the moon I REMEMBER watching the Apollo 11 moon landing with my parents. On 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to […]
ON 18 OCTOBER each year, the Church remembers St Luke, writer of the third Gospel. St Paul names Luke as a physician, so he is known as the patron saint of medics and surgeons. We […]
A GIFT FROM GOD For parents, the month of September brings relief and delight – relief that the children are going back to school, and delight in their learning, growing and blossoming through their education. […]
A REFLECTION ON JUNE 8, 1997, the Administrative Bishop R O Brown inducted me into the pastoral position here in the Reading New Testament Church of God (NTCG) Church as the pastor, with additional responsibility […]
CAVERSHAM BRIDGE AND THE BIG ISSUES. It is a privilege to contribute an article to Caversham Bridge. Each month its lively and colourful productions update us on what is happening around us. It is encouraging […]
Don’t ‘go it alone’! THIS MONTH is a special one, marking a first for our nation: an extra bank holiday to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee. Seventy years of service to the United Kingdom […]
Dr Alison Johnston, Caversham Bridge, 2017 (Editors Login)