This Week’s Newsletter

Here is this week’s newsletter: St Stephens News XXVI No 10

Good news on the financial front

Economics is aptly known as the ‘Dismal Science’. So much of it seems to involve unhappy predictions of doom and gloom. Thus it is comforting to report that the parish is weathering the current patch of appalling weather reasonably well.

Giving is down a bit, but over all it has held up rather better . . . → Read More: Good news on the financial front

Culture warfare and its
 baleful consequences

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The United States has been engaged in a culture war for more than a century, though most Americans seem blissfully unaware of the fact. And, indeed, the terrifying truth is that traditional America is not only losing the battle, but will ultimately lose the war, if the sleeping majority fails to awake in time to . . . → Read More: Culture warfare and its
 baleful consequences

This Week’s Newsletter

Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephens News XXVI No 9

This Week’s Newsletter

Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephens News XXVI No 8

This Week’s Newsletter

Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephens News XXVI No7

President Obama is quite
 wrong about the Crusades

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Sorry to say so, but either the President could do with an intensive course in world history, or he was being deliberately disingenuous when, at the National Prayer Breakfast, he claimed that the Crusades and the Inquisition are somehow the moral equivalent of the Islamic State’s barbarism in Syria and Iraq.

. . . → Read More: President Obama is quite
 wrong about the Crusades

This Week’s Newsletter

Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephens News XXVI No 6

Beginning-of-Lent Events and Services

Shrove Tuesday Pancake & Sausage Supper

Prepare for Lent by joining us for our Annual Shrove Tuesday Pancake & Sausage Supper on 17 February at 5.00 PM. These famous suppers are not only gastronomic events, they are also real inflation fighters. The price has remained unchanged for 26 years. We challenge you to find . . . → Read More: Beginning-of-Lent Events and Services

Explore the foundations of the Christian Faith

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The first five books of the Old Testament are known to the Jewish people as The Torah. The Church refers to them as the “Books of Moses. Surprisingly, perhaps, few Christians today study them in the depth they deserve. This is a pity, for they are the very foundation of our Faith.

It is . . . → Read More: Explore the foundations of the Christian Faith