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News from the University Church
May 31st, 2024 at 3:57 pm BSTView online Give us this day our daily bread by the Revd Canon Dr William Lamb Bread has been a staple part of our diet for centuries. And yet we live in a society in which bread is increasingly a political issue. A loaf of bread in a local artisan ...
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May 24th, 2024 at 4:34 pm BSTView online God’s Pronounsby the Revd Naomi Gardom How do we refer to God? The standard answer to this is ‘he’ – it has become automatic for us to refer to God, both God in Trinity and in the person of Jesus Christ, as masculine, male. For ...
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May 17th, 2024 at 2:44 pm BSTView online When consonants go astrayby Patricia O'Neill Psalm 57 v 11 For your loving-kindness is as high as the heavensAnd your faithfulness reaches to the clouds My religious formation centered on the question ‘what does God want from me?’ I ...
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May 10th, 2024 at 3:54 pm BSTView onlineGod is gone up… now we wait. by the Revd Hannah Cartwright If the Ascension (which we celebrated on Thursday), were to have a soundtrack, for me it would be Finzi’s ‘God is gone up with a triumphant shout’ with its gloriously out ...
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May 3rd, 2024 at 5:00 pm BSTView onlineSongs of Ascent by the Revd Naomi Gardom I recently discovered that The Lark Ascending, Vaughan Williams’ immensely popular piece for violin and orchestra, was based on a poem of the same name by the Victorian poet George Meredith. T ...