I’M not really a “party animal” but this Saturday afternoon I’m going to a 25th birthday bash at Christ Church in Reading Road, Henley....

WE live in such turbulent, unsettling times globally — whether it’s growing geopolitical tensions, dictatorships, ongoing wars or ...

THIS summer I had the privilege of conducting the wedding of our youngest daughter and her fiancé in a lovely ancient stone church as ...

Are you beyond learning? I hope not! Well done to those who have succeeded in their GCSEs or A-levels; spare a thought for those who ...

This week I had the privilege of being at the deathbed of a much loved man with his wife and son, shortly after he had died. As well ...

EACH Wednesday evening at 8pm I host a Zoom Complin service that reaches out to Ethiopia, Nigeria, Uganda and the Congo in Africa, ...

MANY people associate the word “quaker” with porridge. Actually, the religious group of friends known as Quakers have no connection ...

THE request to write this week’s “Thought” found me lying in the sun at the Kumpula Lido in Helsinki. The pool was built for the 1952 ...

LAST week I had the very great privilege and pleasure of attending the 100th birthday party of a dear friend, J, the astonishingly ...

AT the end of his remarkable book After Virtue the moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre surveyed the intellectual fragmentation of the ...

MOST outside assessments of pretty much anything to do with Israel/Palestine should be taken with a large shovel of salt. It is fair ...

YEARS ago, I found the record of a letter written by an elderly priest to the young daughter of an Italian count. Dated 1513, the ...

JESUS knew how to be made welcome and how to welcome others. However, he started life as a refugee and finished it being rejected by ...

TODAY (Friday) marks the 50th anniversary of the release of that iconic film Jaws through which its director, Steven Spielberg, became ...

FROM Suffering to Hope — The Certainty of God’s Love. — Romans 5:1–5 If you’ve ever wandered through Marsh Meadows after a heavy rain ...

SOME time ago, I was interested to read two personal faith quotes in the press. Both were from sports people, which I found very ...

MANY people have played the game of naming two or three things they would take with them if their home was threatened by fire. It is ...

WHAT will you be doing over the bank holiday weekend? Will it be a welcome break from the usual daily patterns? So much of life is ...

MANY reading this will have seen the film Conclave or read the book. At the time of writing and submitting this “Thought for the Week” ...