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Cake and posies on Mothering Sunday

First published on: 10th December 2019

Cake and posies on Mothering Sunday. MUMS across the diocese are being offered posies and Simnel cake on Mothering Sunday, 6 March, while mums from Sudan to Burundi are getting the chance of a new life, all courtesy of Mothers' Union members in Berks, Bucks and Oxon.


Brand new Pathways magazine set to launch in January

First published on: 10th December 2019

We're about to reveal our new diocesan magazine: Pathways.


Bishop John on collective worship

First published on: 10th December 2019

Bishop John on collective worship. The National Governors Association issued a statement last week that the requirement for daily collective worship in schools without a designated religious character should be abolished.


An LLM and a lawyer

First published on: 10th December 2019

I hesitated before writing about being a Christian in my workplace because lawyers don't get much positive press and are not shown in a very good light in the Bible...


Advice about ash trees

First published on: 10th December 2019

Advice about ash trees. Following the discovery of Chalara fraxinea or "ash die-back" in mature woodland in Suffolk the government has banned all imports of live ash trees.


Tim Ford

First published on: 18th December 2019

Tim Ford, 24, prays regularly and refuses to let cerebral palsy, a condition that means he is non-verbal and a permanent wheelchair user, stop him living a rich life.


Telling the Advent story

First published on: 2nd January 2020

Telling the Advent story. A VILLAGE Advent calendar with a difference is telling the Christmas story in Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire.


Welcoming Bishop Olivia

First published on: 8th January 2020

Welcoming Bishop Olivia. A WELCOME service on Saturday marked the official start of the Rt Revd Olivia Graham's ministry as the Bishop of Reading.


Hidden treasures discovered in continuing conservation at St Paul's

First published on: 8th January 2020

Hidden treasures discovered in continuing conservation at St Paul's. HIDDEN treasures have been found during full-scale biodiversity surveys that started as part of a tree protection plan in a Berkshire churchyard.


Around the Deaneries - Aston and Cuddesdon

First published on: 8th January 2020

The Revd Alan Garratt, who I met in the Thame Barn Centre, is the Area Dean of the Aston and Cuddesdon Deanery.

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