Category: Weekly Newsletter

Parish of Cumnor News for 1st May 2020
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Jonathan WiddessDear friends, I was interested and challenged to read this article recently: Christians and the bubonic plague by The Ven John BartonThe Reverend Richard Peirson was one of the exceptions. Most of the other clergy in the City of London had fled the Great Plague in 1665, but Peirson stayed…

Parish of Cumnor News for 25th April 2020
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Jonathan WiddessDear friends, Difficulties in life will either drive us away from God or they drive us deeper into his arms. The worst part of suffering is the damage it can do to our view of God, our relationship with him. Feelings of abandonment creep in: Why did he let this…

Parish of Cumnor News for 9th April 2020
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Jonathan WiddessDear friends, I’m sure that this will be a strange Easter for all of us, celebrating as we are without being able to meet together in person for a joyous celebration of the Risen Jesus, our Prince of Peace. I’m sure that all of us can speak of Jesus as…

Parish News for April 3rd 2020
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Jonathan WiddessDear friends, I don’t know about you, but I’ve long been something of a news junkie. I love to know more about what’s going on and trying to make some sense of the world we live in. And that’s a good thing, after all I think it was John Stott who talked…

