Subject: News from the University Church
News from the University Church
October 20th, 2023 at 3:26 pm BSTView online The Godless Crusade by the Revd Canon Dr William Lamb On Tuesday 31 October at 5.00pm, Dr Tobias Cremer will be talking about his new book, The Godless Crusade. For a number of years, Tobias was a Junior Research Fellow at Pembrok ...
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October 13th, 2023 at 2:00 pm BSTView online Wisdom for the world by Dr Sarah Mortimer The ‘books of wisdom’ in the Bible can seem strikingly relevant – recently I have discovered the book of Ecclesiasticus and its author’s perceptive and hopeful reflections on the joy ...
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October 6th, 2023 at 9:00 pm BSTView online Dominus illuminatio mea by the Revd Canon Dr William Lamb The motto of the University of Oxford is taken from Psalm 27. It means ’The Lord is my Light’: 'The Lord is my light, and my salvation; whom then shall I fear:The Lord i ...
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September 29th, 2023 at 4:57 pm BSTView online Icons on Ammo Boxes by the Revd Canon Dr Charlotte Bannister-Parker You may remember that last autumn the University Church hosted an exhibition of Ukrainian icons painted on the lids of ammunition boxes to raise funds for a frontl ...
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September 22nd, 2023 at 4:20 pm BSTView online Harvest in Holywell by the Revd Hannah Cartwright As bright summer sun turns to golden autumnal glow, the Church gets ready to celebrate the abundance of all that God grows. Harvest is traditionally a time of thanksgiving for crops ...
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September 14th, 2023 at 2:08 pm BSTView online Paradox by Esther de Waal “The key is paradox”. I am standing outside Thomas Merton’s hermitage, talking to his great friend and fellow Cistercian monk Br Patrick Hart. I tell him that I have just started to read the Rule of ...
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September 8th, 2023 at 3:00 pm BSTView online Faithful cross, above all others! by the Revd Naomi Gardom The cross is arguably the most iconic of all icons: an instantly recognisable symbol that is infinitely replicable, and which has spread across the world. We wear it on je ...
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September 1st, 2023 at 5:32 pm BSTView online University Church café to close as part of ambitious development plan A new social enterprise, repairs to stonework, replanting of the gardens and a major redevelopment of the University Church’s café facilities at Radcliffe ...
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August 25th, 2023 at 2:01 pm BSTView online World Homeless Day: Vicar’s Sleepout by the Revd Canon Dr William Lamb On the 10th October 2023, people around the world will mark World Homeless Day. Oxford is a city of extraordinary contrasts - with some of the most expensive h ...
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August 18th, 2023 at 10:27 am BSTView online Good questions by Dr Sarah Mortimer In the gospels, Jesus is often asking questions – of disciples and would-be disciples, of religious leaders, even of Pilate himself. Usually Jesus’s questions seem to take people by surprise ...