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News from the University Church
October 25th, 2024 at 11:59 am BSTView onlineThe Gaze of God by the Revd Canon Dr William Lamb In her little book Waiting for God, the philosopher, Simone Weil writes about our capacity for attentiveness. Simone Weil lives between 1909-1943. She died at a relatively tender age, but ...
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October 18th, 2024 at 11:38 am BSTView onlineIn the beginning by the Revd Naomi Gardom In this term’s Bible Study, we’re looking at the book of Genesis, with the help of a new commentary by the novelist, theologian and critic Marilynne Robinson. It’s appropriate that Robinson ...
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October 11th, 2024 at 12:06 pm BSTView onlineHarvest gifts by Dr Sarah Mortimer Harvest festival always catches me by surprise. By October the blackberries at the end of the garden are a distant memory, and supermarkets make it all too easy to forget the yearly variations of our fo ...
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October 4th, 2024 at 11:10 am BSTView online‘There are many gifts but the same Spirit’ (1 Corinthians 12.4) by the Revd Hannah Cartwright This week I have mostly been tackling rotas. Rotas for the coming term and even, dare I say it, rotas for Christmas! I secretly like gettin ...
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September 27th, 2024 at 12:15 pm BSTView onlineMichaelmas Term 2024 This coming Sunday is the Feast of St Michael and All Angels, commonly known as Michaelmas. We celebrate this festival every year, even though it doesn't always fall on a Sunday. It is this festival which lends its n ...
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September 20th, 2024 at 11:14 am BSTView online One Song to the Tune of Another In the classic Radio 4 comedy show ‘I’m Sorry, I Haven’t A Clue’, there is a game in which panellists (with varying musical abilities!) are asked to sing one familiar song to the tune of another, ...
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September 13th, 2024 at 3:00 pm BSTView onlineStories old and new by Dr Sarah Mortimer In Herefordshire there is a story that when St Peter was travelling to Rome, his route took him through what is now South West England. He stayed in one of the local villages, now called Peterch ...
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September 6th, 2024 at 12:30 pm BSTView onlineBack to School by the Revd Hannah Cartwright Those three words are enough to simultaneously illicit a deep sigh of anticipatory exhaustion from pupils (and some teachers!) and provoke a small sigh of relief from parents, joyful but weary ...
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August 30th, 2024 at 3:59 pm BSTView onlineNewman as Preacher In the summer of 1824, John Henry Newman preached his very first sermon shortly after being ordained as a deacon. He would go on to preach myriad sermons of enduring value. Generations of Christians have been and conti ...
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August 23rd, 2024 at 11:00 am BSTView onlineThe Serious Business of Play by the Revd Naomi Gardom This month saw the death of Jerome Berryman, the founder of Godly Play, which is the method of catechesis we use with our children’s group at St Mary’s. Godly Play has close links ...