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My childhood memories of Harvest Festivals are of staid hymns and tins of soup and sweetcorn – I wasn’t a big fan.

It’s been quite a long haul, but I have finally finished reading all 974 pages of Dostoevsky’s epic novel The Karamazov Brothers.

I wonder if you saw Emma Raducanu win the American Open tennis championship.

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.