Advent Calendar – 16 December
Nativity Stories: Shepherd Totally brilliant! Best night of my life! You should have seen it – this guy floating in the sky, and so bright, like he was all lit up from the inside. Amazing! Not going to lie – it was…
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Advent Calendar – 9 December
Nativity Stories: Mary If you’d asked me before what Nazareth was like, I’d have said it was boring. Nothing ever happened there. We all thought that, the girls who played when our mothers didn’t make us help with…
Advent Calendar – 4 December
Nativity Stories: Elizabeth He usually came back tired. Four days, sometimes five on the road, and him not getting any younger. But this time, he burst into the house, making shapes with his hands when no words came…
Advent Calendar – 3 December 2025
Nativity Stories: Gabriel They’re always afraid. However I appear, and I can seem as ordinary as the man sowing wheat in the field next to you, I always scare them. I understand: their hearts are open to me, and…
Advent Calendar – 2 December
Nativity Stories: Zechariah I had my consolations. Of course it hurt month by month when her blood flowed and we knew it was not to be. It would have pained any man. But, as I say, there were consolations. …
Advent Calendar – 1 December 2025
Nativity Stories: Isaiah I’m long dead. I had my time, heard the word, said my piece, and left the field. I didn’t just speak the truth, I lived it too, going about without a stitch for three long years, baking…
25 December 2024
Merry Christmas! This is the final Advent Calendar for 2024. I hope you have enjoyed Feathers and pictures from Liguria in Italy. And let us hope that the hope and light of Christmas are found in our lives and world…
24 December 2024
Good morning, on Christmas Eve. We are nearly there: final visits to shops for food and presents; meeting family off trains and buses; heading away for Christmas gatherings. Today the University Chaplaincy is holding…
23 December 2024
Feathers Part 23 The story so far: Professor Maggi King, an astronomer in the University, has observed a star’s peculiar movement. Outside the observatory Maggi and her group looked up and there it was, unmistakable…
22 December 2024
Part 22 The story so far: Josh has been born in St Leonard’s Chapel during a service of Carols by Candlelight; Deliveroo riders brought dishes of lamb and a woolly hat. Professor Maggi King was at the Observatory as…