Talking point is submitted monthly by our local church leaders, subjects vary and you can add your comments when registered.
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 […]
What a Year THIS IS the time of the Church’s year when we remember, when we look back through what we have done and what has gone on around us, and what a year! 2020, […]
FOR MANY of us the past few months may have been very challenging. Some of us may have felt isolated and alone, others have been wearied by the pressures of work and children, all of […]
Space to breathe Towards the beginning of the lockdown, I read a disturbing thought on my old friend Matt’s Facebook: “We are the virus, corona is the cure.” It is a disturbing thought for a […]
A changed and needy world WHEN I was training, we had a tutor who would say: ‘I don’t listen to what people say, I look at what they do’. He also considered the parable of […]
Empty Churches and Communities Full of Faith Since 20 March 2020 all our churches have been empty. They have been empty even when they ought to have been full. The silence has weighed heavily on […]
This Month from Dr Alison Johnston – Why not put Christ to the test? Over the weekend of VE Day 75 we had heard some wonderful memories, some so inspirational. Those stories felt so familiar […]
Dr Alison Johnston, Caversham Bridge, 2017 (Editors Login)