THE week commencing May 17 brought some much-needed relaxation of the covid-19 restrictions. Once again we are allowed into pubs and ...

HAVE you noticed that the sounds of traffic have increased since the easing of lockdown restrictions? Henley seems generally noisier ...

I AM a Christian, not because I have all the answers. I don’t think I know it all. I have studied as hard as I can — I have degrees ...

SOME years ago, I watched a play performed by some small children about a pond; not any old pond, but a pond full of fish and grubs. ...

EASTERTIDE is always one of my favourite times of year: the sense that winter has lost its grip in the face of the gathering strength ...

THERE is a natural order to our observations of Lent, Holy Week, Easter, Ascensiontide and Pentecost that creates a great spiritual ...

“NO time to die” — no, not the Easter story re-hashed but the latest James Bond film, which should have been released over this Easter ...

LIVING with the reality of death and loss can be very positive. It helps us treasure what really matters and find hope. We have faced ...

DEAR Friends, A strange time we are in at the moment with covid restrictions affecting every aspect of our lives. My churches took the ...

WHAT are you worried about? Last week I watched a great film called Bridge of Spies, which is based on a true Cold War story. A rather ...

HAVE you read The Crime of Gabriel Gale by G K Chesterton? It’s a story about how to retain your grip on reality. The plot goes ...

A FEW weeks ago, the Gospel reading for Sunday was the account of the Transfiguration, when Jesus was transfigured before his ...

LITTLE less than an hour after the Prime Minister had announced his roadmap from lockdown, I had the first of several phone calls. ...

IN the 19th century, ships were often recklessly overloaded with cargo. As a result, ships sank and crews and cargoes were lost. ...

UNTIL last year I would have dismissed this thesis as far-fetched. However, I am writing this in a hospital car park while Ann and ...

HOW do you write a Thought for the Week in the middle of a national lockdown, a week when every day looks the same and the biggest ...

THIS coming Sunday, the third before Lent, is traditionally known as Septuagesima, meaning 70th in Latin. It marks the period of 70 ...

JUST over a week ago we had our last live church communion service as part of our Thursday opening. With the current situation this ...

I AM writing this a couple of days after our Prime Minister announced England’s third lockdown since the outbreak of covid-19. Once ...