A Bigger Picture: Poetry and Faith
Good morning,
Just a quick reminder of our remarkable poetry weekend.
A Bigger Picture: Poetry and Faith
Today, Saturday 21 November, 7 pm, MS Teams Event
To join this MS Teams event click on the link provided on the Chaplaincy Webpage
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/chaplaincy/eventsandgroups/ and scroll down to the event and click the link.
Revd Mark Oakley, Dean of the Chapel, St John’s College, Cambridge, is the author of The Splash of Words: Believing in Poetry (2016) among other works. At this event, I will introduce Mark who will be joined by poets Sharon Black, John Burnside, Barbara Davey, Michael Symmons Roberts and Kenneth Steven, who will read a small number of their poems related in some way to faith, and then discuss how they understand the relationship of poetry and faith. There will be the opportunity for questions and discussion afterwards.
Then tomorrow, Sunday 22 November, Mark will be the preacher at our University Chapel Service, in St Salvator’s Chapel at 11 am. The service is live and livestreamed – but Mark cannot be here in person because of restrictions in England. His sermon (on video) is called By Way of the Heart: Faith, Poetry and Truth Decay. Music will include choral scholars singing music by Samuel Wesley and Haydn, and George Herbert’s great hymn Let all the world in every corner sing. As I write, there are still 16 spaces available to reserve at the chapel service – https://events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/sunday-worship-52/
It will also be available on the live-stream direct to your device – see https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/community/worship/ and click on Livestreamed services.
I hope there is poetry in your life despite the rather bleak prose of our times.
Yours,
Donald.