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From the Rector: Tuesday 12th November 2024

All change Dear friends, Wherever the Conservative Party has been sent, it seems they are being joined by the Democrats from across the water. Mr Trump and Mr Starmer can soon look at each other across the table, each from strong positions of popular support, although the polarities that they represent may well make real communication or any kind of collegiality rather…

From the Rector: Tuesday 5th November

Lest we forget Dear friends In our services this Sunday, we’ll be remembering all who serve, and all who still suffer because of war.  At Checkendon we are holding our annual Remembrance parade service, with the brownies, cubs, and scouts taking part. Revd Romey is preaching, and there will be a new name on the honour roll of the fallen from Checkendon…

From the Rector: Tuesday 1st October 2024

Harvest Thanksgiving Dear friends, By the time you have finished your breakfast you will have depended upon half the world. Coffee from Africa, or Latin America, Tea from India, bread using strong flour from Canada, an orange from Spain – every breakfast table will be different, but it will have this common thread. We all depend upon a global harvest, every single…

From the Rector: Tuesday 17th September 2025

You may find some parts of this distressing Dear friends, I remember being horrified as a young theological college student. My extra curricular interest in Roman archaeology had led me into a dusty corner of the college library, where the periodical Biblical Archaeology Review gave colourful updates on the latest digs, mostly in Israel/Palestine, but sometimes elsewhere in the Romanized world of…

From the Rector: Tuesday 3rd September 2024

Suffer the little children Dear friends, I remember as a small boy being taken to Trosley Village Hall with all the other youngsters for a “clinic”. In different rooms of the hall cheery nurses would administer different vaccines. Word pretty quickly got around that the worst place was the kitchen, where it seemed everyone would come out crying. Sure enough, there was…