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During the pandemic, quite a few of us discovered regular Morning Prayer.

I can’t have been the only one flummoxed to hear that the radical jihadist Sunni Muslim Taliban, bent on the imposition of its brand of sharia law, was under attack from the radical jihadist Sunni Muslim local squad of Isis, known as Isis Khorasan Province.

We are about to say a fond farewell to Christian Saguyan, who is leaving his time as a Sheppard Scholar at St Martin’s to become an ordinand at Ripon College Cuddesdon.

My extended family is large and close-knit, with all of the usual ups and downs, joys and difficulties.

I was privy to a conversation on the bus earlier this week, I say privy, I wasn’t exactly invited to listen but I couldn’t help tuning in.

The Universal church commemorates the Feast of the Transfiguration on 6 August.

For almost everyone, this year’s rest times will not be as we would have planned if circumstances had been different.

Two weeks ago, our former Vicar, Nick Holtam, retired after 10 years as Bishop of Salisbury and 42 years in ordained ministry.

It was such a joy last weekend to celebrate our community life at the at home day, the parish Eucharist and the parish picnic.