Subject: News from the University Church
News from the University Church
November 11th, 2022 at 4:26 pm BSTView online Following All Saints by Dr Sarah Mortimer November usually vanishes for me in a flurry of teaching and frantic mornings scrambles to find thermals and bike lights. But the weeks between All Saints and Advent are their own special ti ...
News from the University Church
November 4th, 2022 at 12:36 pm BSTView online Gates and Portals by Julia Hollander You may have heard about ‘Gates and Portals’, the show currently going on at Modern Art Oxford. I say ‘show’ rather than ‘exhibition’ because it was conceived by self-confessed ‘gra ...
News from the University Church
October 28th, 2022 at 3:00 pm BSTView online Requiem by the Revd Dr William Lamb We live in a culture which is not used to speaking of death. As the President of St John’s College, Professor Sue Black suggests in her book, All That Remains: “in the modern world (death) ...
News from the University Church
October 21st, 2022 at 3:10 pm BSTView online A Question of Character by the Revd Dr William Lamb ‘The word “character” can mean a person (as in “he’s a sleazy character”), or someone of unusual probity and integrity, or a printed or written letter. In fact, the wor ...
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October 14th, 2022 at 3:18 pm BSTView online Abseil by Tess Blenkinsop The American minister Theodore l. Cuyler wrote:‘When a miner looks at a rope that is to lower him into a deep mine, he may coolly say“I have faith in that rope as well made and strong” But when he lay ...
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October 7th, 2022 at 3:00 pm BSTView online Raise the song of harvest home by Patricia O'Neill Harvest Festival is a tricky one. It’s very tempting to relapse into a childlike version of jolly haymakers, rosy apple-pickers and kindly farmers providing us with the fruits of ...
What's on for Michaelmas Term 2022 at the University Church
October 1st, 2022 at 8:30 pm BSTView online Noughth Week by the Revd Dr William Lamb A new academic year is about to begin as freshers at both the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University descend on the city. This is one of the most wonderful times of year. There is ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin Oxford
September 23rd, 2022 at 2:54 pm BSTView online Pilgrim by Alison Le Cornu I’ve just returned from a week at a Convent in northern France. It’s a place I know well; I have been going there three or four times a year since 1998. Originally it was a place I went to study. I wro ...
News from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin Oxford
September 16th, 2022 at 4:48 pm BSTView online Gatehouse by Victoria Mort The Gatehouse has been in existence for over 30 years, having started as the outcome of initiative by Churches Together in Central Oxford. Church people were very concerned to see the number of homeless p ...
Services Commemorating Her Late Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II
September 14th, 2022 at 5:19 pm BSTView online Queen Elizabeth II1926 - 2022 ARRANGEMENTS FOR SERVICES THIS WEEK As the nation mourns the death of Queen Elizabeth II, there will be a number of changes to services at the University Church in the days ahead. Thursday 15 SeptemberO ...