After the upheaval and dust of the last six months of work inside St. Kenelm’s Church, the end is in sight of what has turned out to be a 30-year project to safeguard and enhance our beautiful building. All that remains to be done is the final fix of our hidden kitchen; the connection of mains water and drainage, and finally, the installation of our new reredos depicting the life of St. Kenelm in a mosaic of Venetian glass. Continue reading First glimpse of St Kenelm’s
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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.
Pilgrim Paths
An Evening with Sir Ben Kingsley
Friday 23 June, 2017
Friends of All Saints’ Church,
Spelsbury, present
Spelsbury, present
An Evening with
Sir Ben Kingsley
Featuring extracts from many of his films
with a lively debate …
… about the subject, director, location and much more.
… about the subject, director, location and much more.
Friday 23 June 2017
at All Saints’ Church, Spelsbury
Bar opens 7.30pm, Evening starts at 8.00pm
BOOK NOW – Tickets £15
at www.tinyurl.com/spelsburysirben
Gravestone Geology
Nina Morgan, who lives in Chadlington and one of our faithful band of bell ringers, has recently written a book with Phil Powell on The Geology of Oxford Gravestones (Geologica Press, £14.99). Below she explains why our churchyards and cemeteries are such fascinating places!
Nina is planning a gravestone walk in the Cemetery in from 2:30 – 3:30 on Saturday 20 May. All wlecome.
The making of a church bell
Have you ever wondered how church bells are made? These two videos show how it is done. Enjoy!
Stop stepping on my toes!
Those who follow the goings on of the Church of England will have will have seen much coverage in the media about the statement by the House of Bishops ‘Marriage and Same Sex Relationships after the Shared Conversations’ published on Friday 27 January 2017 ahead of the February sitting of The General Synod. After three long years of ‘Shared Conversations’ on the nature of marriage and the experiences of Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Christians this report has been been seen by many if not all in the LGBT community as unbelievable, unacceptable and ungodly. Continue reading Stop stepping on my toes!
Drones map our churchyards
On a beautifully crisp winter’s day this week a strange looking object took to the skies over our churchyards: not a UFO or Mark’s latest toy – and with a price tag of over £20,000 it never will be! – but a highly sophisticated drone used for surveying.
Chase Benefice 