All posts by Chase
Consuming Responsibly (1)
Our Bishop has asked us in a recent blog to be Christ-like. Since a large part of our existence consists of consuming, from food to car miles and from clothes to where we put our money, I often worry about just how responsibly I am behaving. In this Season of Creation, I have done my own research and made some useful discoveries which others may find helpful. Here is just one for now. Continue reading Consuming Responsibly (1)
Is Religion Irrational?
Sunday 24th September
7 pm. Milton-under-Wychwood Village Hall
Charlbury New Economy Reading Group
Our friends at the Charlbury Quaker Meeting invite you to join their stimulating reading group. The Reading Group meets for an hour each month to discuss each of the Quaker “Building the New Economy” booklets. These are all focused around how we can move towards a more sustainable economy which doesn’t rely on consuming our natural resources and economic growth every year. Fortunately, you don’t need a degree in economics to understand this because each booklet is written for beginners. Continue reading Charlbury New Economy Reading Group
Letter from Bishop Steven
Dear Friends
Called to be Christ-like: contemplative, compassionate and courageous
I am writing to invite every church, chaplaincy, small group and school in the diocese to do something very simple but life changing over the next year.
I am asking the whole Diocese of Oxford to read, study and dwell in the opening words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount: the Beatitudes in Matthew 5.1-10. Continue reading Letter from Bishop Steven
Pilgrim Path – Charlbury to Shorthampton
Friday 15 September, 2017
10 am from Charlbury Church
Please bring your own food and drink.
Truth, Trust and (Artificial) Intelligence
In the 1630s a group of intellectuals known as the Great Tew Circle met a short distance away from the Chase Benefice to champion the use of reason in the religious polemics of the time. At Wychwood Circle we could say we are focused on exploring the use of religion as well as reason in the political, moral and technological upheaval of our own time.
What can we know?
The Sacrament of the Present Moment
‘The sacrament of the present moment is the doorway to the eternal and universal’, says Sally Welch, vicar of St Mary’s Charlbury, in her recent book How to be a mindful Christian (Canterbury Press, 2016). It is an experience that we try to cultivate at our regular Mid-Month Meditation in the Chase Benefice (3rd Tuesday, 6.15pm). The joy of a midsummer meditation at Holy Trinity Ascott is that we can have the door wide open and tune in and out of the sounds of the village and the valley of the Evenlode. Continue reading The Sacrament of the Present Moment
Summer Concert
Saturday 3 July, 2017 at 7.30 pm
St. Mary’s Church, Shipton-under-Wychwood
Pilgrim Paths
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