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Talking Point – February 2025

03/02/2025 Philip Chatfield Comments Off on Talking Point – February 2025

IT’S FEBRUARY: we’re looking towards Spring and the card shops are full of Valentine’s Day cards. You could say love is in the air. This year, I am looking forward to marrying three couples at […]

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Talking Point – January 2025

27/12/2024 Philip Chatfield Comments Off on Talking Point – January 2025

NEWSPAPERS LIKE controversy because it sells. So, to boost sales…what if I were to suggest that Jesus didn’t die on the cross for our sins after all? You probably know the traditional story. Humanity ‘fell’ […]

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Talking Point – November 2024

14/11/2024 Philip Chatfield Comments Off on Talking Point – November 2024

IT IS ONE YEAR (7 October 2023) since the horrendous attack by Hamas on Israeli citizens close to the border between Israel and Gaza, which reaped a harvest of indiscriminate killing and hostage-taking. The audacity, […]

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Talking Point – October 2024

29/09/2024 Philip Chatfield Comments Off on Talking Point – October 2024

NOT BEING ONE of the Caversham clergy, I don’t usually get invited to do a Talking Point. But it happens that my retirement as Bishop of Reading coincides with the 60th anniversary of The Caversham […]

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Talking Point – September 2024

01/09/2024 Philip Chatfield Comments Off on Talking Point – September 2024

THIS SEPTEMBER happens to be the centenary of the church where I’m the Vicar, St Barnabas Emmer Green. We shall celebrate with events for the whole community to mark the anniversary of the foundation stone […]

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Talking Point – August 2024

02/08/2024 Philip Chatfield Comments Off on Talking Point – August 2024

I AM WRITING this before the General Election, and you will be reading it when the result of the election is known. Whichever government has been elected, what is it we hope for, long for, […]

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Talking Point – June 2024

28/05/2024 Philip Chatfield Comments Off on Talking Point – June 2024

RECENTLY MY sister and I took our 95-year-old mum to see Tim Rice at The Hexagon. The show consisted of Tim Rice telling the story of his career, interspersed with some of his best-known and […]