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Talking Point – December 2024
HAPPY CHRISTMAS! The greeting most of us will hear and say numerous times this month, and mostly we will mean it and mostly we will want to hear it! We all want and hope for […]
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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
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
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
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 – July 2024
I HAD A MIND to write on the theme of retreats, as I have just been on one. What is the purpose of going on a retreat; and may this be a religious one or […]
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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 […]
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Talking Point – May 2024
ALL OF US will have experienced disappointment at some point in our lives, and we may be in the midst of it now. It can affect us as an individual, in our family, at work. […]
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Talking Point – April 2024
SO MUCH IN our lives today is becoming extreme. Our climate has just given us one of the warmest and wettest Februaries ever. Keeping a roof over our heads has become incredibly expensive, with a […]
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Talking Point – March 2024
MY DAD, Jack Saynor, was a bomber pilot during World War II. He completed 38 operations with 10 Squadron during 1943-44, a remarkable number for a bomber crew at that time. He was shot down […]