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As we celebrate the first week of the University term, autumns finally feels as if it is here to stay. With colder days and longer nights, the leaves turning to golden browns and yellows in the parks - even in the church garden outside – it’s clear the season has arrived. (Looking a bit like Van Gogh painting “Autumn with Four Trees” ).
Beyond our location in the centre of the city, the advantage of the University Church is our ability to grapple with hot theological topics not only from the pulpit but also the Old Library. This term, the six part series called ‘The Muse’, the first of which is on 19th of October at 6.45pm, begins with the weather. Alexandra Harris, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Lectures of English at Liverpool University, will be discussing the relationship between creativity and changes in the air. Did Milton write better in the spring? What drew Turner to mists? What has the autumn meant to artists throughout time?
So as you walk, bike, bus, run or drive through this evolving autumnal landscape do let the colours, cold, mists, and textures inspire you to reach out to new poetry and music which evokes the changing environment and be thankful for the beautiful city and the inspiring countryside in which we live.
Looking forward to seeing you all on Sunday.
The Revd Charlotte Bannister-Parker
Co-Acting Priest-in-charge
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| | Incumbent Interviews - special weekly prayer
In the lead up to the interviews for a new incumbent in early November we are offering a space to gather as a community to pray for this. Revd Donald Reece will lead prayers as part of the Thursday lunchtime Eucharist (12.15pm in the Chancel) each week for those involved in the decision making and for the candidates themselves.
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| | | Michaelmas Lunches
We have a series of lunches in the Old Library during Michaelmas Term. The second one is on the 23rd October after the main morning service.
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| | Services
—Tuesdays & Thursdays at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Eucharists —
Sunday 16th October Trinity 21 10.30am - Choral Eucharist & University Sermon Francisco Guerrero, Missa simile est regnum (1582)
Cecilia McDowall, Ave Regina (2004)Preacher - Rt Hon David Lidington CBE, MP for Aylesbury & Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council
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| | Forthcoming Concerts & Other Events
— Check out our website and Facebook pages.
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| | Wired: technology's ethical questions
Will a robot do your job? Will technology change our understanding of human identity? How does the Internet change our behaviour? How does technology change conflict? What technology should we not develop?
Over three evenings in Michaelmas Term we will present a discussion on how technology is revolutionising our world and what impact it might have, and consider how we might respond in terms of ethics. Each evening will include a talk, Q&A and discussion over cheese and wine. 7.30pm-9.00pm in the Vaults Cafe. |
| | The Muse: a six-part series on the creative spark
‘Where do you get your ideas from?’ – a question creative people are often asked, and which they often flounder to answer. Do we seek inspiration from the natural world, from the news, from knowledge of ourselves? Is the creative Muse an internal or external energy? This series – featuring, amongst others, award-winning poet Antony Dunn and historical drama expert Dionysios Kyropolous – will shed light on the creative processes in the arts, through talks, workshops and Q&As. Wednesdays, October 19th-November 23rd inclusive. See flyer for further details.
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| | Reflection Morning: Where do I belong...
There will be a reflection morning in the Old Library on Saturday 15th October starting at 10.30am to consider the question of finding our place in the church. All Welcome- no need to sign up. |
| | Poetry Corner
The Met Office Advises Caution
While the river turns up its collar and hurries along,
gulls line up to submit to the weather. One jump
and air possesses them, bodies and wings
helpless as handkerchiefs snatched
from windows of trains intent on the coast.
Each bird is flaunted against the sky,
a warning to any cyclist still clinging on.
Branches lash out; old trees lie down and don’t get up.
A wheelie bin crosses the road without looking,
lands flat on its face on the other side, spilling its knowledge.
Rebecca Watts, from The Met Office Advises Caution, Carcanet Press, 2016
This is the title poem from Rebecca Watts’ just-published first collection. It is a gorgeous, startling evocation of modern English life, and is particularly interested – as the title suggests – in our relationship to the weather. In the poem, things are topsy-turvy: the natural or non-sentient world (river, trees, a wheelie bin) is personified, while the living are objectified (gulls are ‘helpless as handkerchiefs’, ‘cyclists’ are people defined by their apparatus). The final image, of the reckless wheelie bin ‘spilling its knowledge’, invites us to question the nature of knowledge and the way we deal with it.
Our new series, 'The Muse', explores the creative impulse and where artists - visual, literary, musical, dramatic - get their ideas. Our first session, this Wednesday, is with Alexandra Harris, winner of the Guardian First Book Award, who will talk about the English weather and its effect on the creative mind. 19th October, 6.45pm, Old Library.
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