Subject: News from the University Church
News from the University Church
August 23rd, 2019 at 4:03 pm BSTView this email online if it doesn't display correctly The release of A level results last week, and GCSE results this week, have finally broken the relative calm of the summer academic holiday. Pupils who ...
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August 16th, 2019 at 4:38 pm BSTView this email online if it doesn't display correctly In praise of stillness The philosopher, Bertrand Russell, wrote a very serious essay in praise of idleness, arguing that there was far too much work d ...
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August 9th, 2019 at 12:39 pm BSTView this email online if it doesn't display correctly While you're not looking As I begin, both practically and mentally, to prepare myself to move to a new city and a new ministry, there is plenty of loo ...
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August 9th, 2019 at 12:08 pm BSTView this email online if it doesn't display correctly While you're not looking As I begin, both practically and mentally, to prepare myself to move to a new city and a new ministry, there is plenty of loo ...
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August 2nd, 2019 at 1:44 pm BSTView this email online if it doesn't display correctly Commonplaces For many years, I have kept a commonplace book. A rather quaint custom, these personal anthologies were first compiled in antiquity. At v ...
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July 24th, 2019 at 4:31 pm BSTView this email online if it doesn't display correctly Peace In 1517, the Goddess Peace was fed up. She’d travelled across Europe and everywhere there was war, pride, ambition and selfishness. Human be ...
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July 18th, 2019 at 9:46 am BSTView this email online if it doesn't display correctly New Dean of Chapel It is with a mixture of joy, pride and sadness that I have to announce this morning that the Revd James Crockford has been appoin ...
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July 12th, 2019 at 4:45 pm BSTView this email online if it doesn't display correctly Modern Pilgrimage One of the current booms in religious activity in the West is the burgeoning practice of going on pilgrimage. I don't mean merely b ...
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June 28th, 2019 at 8:00 pm BSTView this email online if it doesn't display correctly Falling Out of Love On Sunday I will be ordained a deacon in the Church of England. By any measure, this will be quite a momentous occasion – the c ...
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June 21st, 2019 at 4:32 pm BSTView this email online if it doesn't display correctly The Power of Pilgrimages Walks matter. I am not just thinking of those we take for our physical health but those that have a sacred significance. As a ...