Talking point is submitted monthly by our local church leaders, subjects vary and you can add your comments when registered.
I’ve been reflecting on Opening Up and Taking Risks AS SOCIETY opens up and more of the events and places we related to before March 2020 become available again, so the risks of being infected […]
IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE VERB I HAVE served in ordained ministry in the Church of England as a parish priest for 28 years. I have had the privilege of laughing and crying and experiencing […]
LIVING INTO A NEW WORLD: I SAW a brilliant meme (think of a snarky internet joke picture*) a couple of years ago. It had a picture of the Dark Knight suited up in all his […]
NOTICE THE BURNING BUSHES: ABOUT THIS time last year, a month or so into lockdown, one of the questions our church leadership team asked one another was, “What are you NOT missing? Are there any […]
MOVING FORWARD IN A STRAIGHT LINE: I RECENTLY watched the film ‘News of the World.’ It is set in 1870 just after the American Civil War, and stars Tom Hanks as a retired Army Captain, […]
‘YOUR TOO LATE IS NOT TOO LATE FOR ME’ IN JOHN 11, verse 25 of the New International Version of the Bible, Jesus told Martha, “… I am the resurrection and the life. The one […]
However it feels, you are not alone AS I WRITE, it is yet another cold, grey, drizzly day in February and there are weeks to go before we can expect to feel the Spring. […]
Forty Days & Forty Nights FOR MANY people the season of Lent this year will make little difference to their lives. This is not because of indifference or because our secular values have successfully eroded […]
The Year of the ramble? WAS 2020 the year of the ramble for you? Since becoming curate of Caversham Thameside and Mapledurham Parish, I have had more and more reason to cross the Thames from […]
No Christmas FOR SOME people 2020 may have seemed like a non-year. The year in which many things didn’t happen. The year in which plans needed to be abandoned or radically changed. And will it […]
Dr Alison Johnston, Caversham Bridge, 2017 (Editors Login)