Dear friends, Ever since I was a teenager, I’ve always marvelled at the amount of faith an atheist has! To be an atheist I would have to believe that nothing produced everything, non-life produced life, randomness produced precision, chaos produced order, matter produced emotions, emptiness produced love, a vacuum produced imagination and matter produced a conscience and the ability to make and…

Dear friends, I used to travel extensively around the world in Developing Countries, working with, and learning from local indigenous people groups. One country I worked in many times was Tanzania, so I love to hear stories of their heroes. It reminds me how resilient these wonderful people are in every walk of life. One such story you may well remember if…

Dear friends, Sarah and I have been here in Oving and Quainton for six years. I know it’s a cliché, but doesn’t time fly! I remember being totally shocked when I heard, after two days of interviews, that I was being offered this House For Duty post as Team Vicar looking after All Saints, Oving with Pitchcott and Holy Cross and St…

Dear friends, There’s something very civilised about receiving an invitation with an RSVP on it! “Répondez s’il vous plait.” We’ve had several invitations recently from friends of ours who are getting married and naturally, there is an RSVP attached to each one – it would be rude of us to ignore it or forget to respond. Invitations are out there to our…

OVING News. JUNE 2022 Dear friends, Our wonderful church at All Saints, Oving has a compelling history summed up beautifully by the timeline put together for us by the Oxford Heritage Partnership: 12th century Small, possibly two cell church thought to exist on site 1222 First surviving record of a rector at Oving; the church is in the gift of the Priory…