Subject: News from the University Church
News from the University Church
January 27th, 2023 at 3:00 pm BSTView online Use your LOAF in Lentby Janie Bickersteth During the season of Lent, the Green Team will be ‘using their loaf’; we’d love to encourage the whole church to do so too. ‘Using your loaf’ (cockney slang ‘loaf of bread’ e ...
News from the University Church
January 20th, 2023 at 3:07 pm BSTView online Seeing Iconsby Esther de Waal ‘Stop looking and start seeing' was the advice of Thomas Merton to a young poet as they walked together through the woods, each with a camera. To look is to have some object in view and concentrate on ...
News from the University Church
January 13th, 2023 at 2:07 pm BSTView online Beloved Is Where We Beginby the Revd Hannah Cartwright Last week on the feast of the Baptism of Christ, we heard the words of our Heavenly Father say to Jesus, as he came up out of the water: ‘You are my Son, the Beloved, with you ...
Listening Out
January 6th, 2023 at 12:20 pm BSTView online Epiphany6 January 2022 Today, Friday 6 January, marks the beginning of the Feast of the Epiphany, with its themes of manifestation, appearance and revelation. There are three stories from the Gospels which are associated: the comin ...
Christmas at the University Church
December 23rd, 2022 at 4:05 pm BSTView online Christmas at St Mary's by the Revd Dr William Lamb Come and be part of our Christmas celebrations where there is something for everyone. Christmas speaks of a God who comes among us and embraces our humanity, sharing our hopes and f ...
Christmas and New Year at the University Church
December 16th, 2022 at 4:24 pm BSTView online Icons on Ammunition Boxes by the Revd Charlotte Bannister-Parker The idea of waiting and being drawn into an encounter with God is clearly an Advent theme. And icons are a mechanism that has been used for centuries to do exactly tha ...
News from the University Church
December 9th, 2022 at 2:45 pm BSTView online The significance of the humble hedgerow by Janie Bickersteth Joni Mitchell’s Big Yellow Taxi words ‘You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone’ are ringing through my head. How can we possibly care for our Earth if we ...
News from the University Church
December 2nd, 2022 at 3:00 pm BSTView online Ticking boxes by the Revd Hannah Cartwright For the first time, the number of people describing themselves on the census as Christian has dropped to less than 50% in England; sparking much concern among those who consider religion t ...
News from the University Church
November 25th, 2022 at 8:36 pm BSTView online For A New Beginning by the Revd Dr William Lamb Advent marks the beginning of the Christian year. It is a time of new beginnings - and yet it is also a time of waiting and expectation. It is perhaps no accident that we tell stories ...
News from the University Church
November 18th, 2022 at 3:23 pm BSTView online An Unquiet Soul by Patricia O'Neill Why are you so full of heaviness, o my soulAnd why are you so disquieted within mePut your trust in God, for I will yet give him thanksWho is the help of my countenance and my God.Psalm 42 v:6-7 S ...