Companionship 22 July 2024
Good afternoon, I hope you’re having a good summer, wherever you are spending it. I was preaching yesterday in the church I grew up in in Glasgow, called Greenbank, and thought you may be interested in reading the…
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Companionship 4 June 2024
Greetings, In under a week, we will have begun the summer season of graduations in the University. Over five days and 10 ceremonies, around 2000 graduands will graduate, even more mini-fudge doughnuts will be consumed…
Companionship 15 April 2024
Good morning, Today is the centenary of the birth of Sir Neville Mariner, a wonderful conductor whose recordings are filling Radio 3’s programmes all day. I remember playing over and over the soundtrack to the film…
Holy Week
Good morning, We are in Holy Week, when Christians recall the events around Jesus’ last days and nights before his death. The Chaplaincy is offering a pilgrimage through the week, with a service each evening from…
Advent: 25 December
Merry Christmas! Our final window in this year’s Advent Calendar opens on to a Madonna and Child, one of many beautiful icons and paintings in churches and galleries around the world. This lovely example is from the…
Advent: 24 December
Good morning… …on Christmas Eve. This is the day and evening in many cultures for the family to gather around food, music and gifts. And in the University we mark it with three services of Carols by Candlelight at St…
Advent: 23 December
Greetings, Yesterday was the last working day of the University this year. Today is the first day of the holidays! Rarely has our community felt more in need of rest, recuperation and refreshment – perhaps that is…
Advent: 22 December 2023
Good morning… … on the shortest day of 2023, the winter solstice. Over recent years, the Chaplaincy and in particular our honorary Pagan Chaplain, Kitty Macintyre, has organised a labyrinth of light in the Spanish…
Advent: 21 December
Greetings, We stay with Matthew’s Gospel for one last window on his infancy narratives. We’ve seen his depiction of the Magi, Herod’s attempted deception of them and the flight into Egypt. We now turn to the…
Advent: 20 December
Greetings, Behind today’s window an image and haiku about the flight into Egypt, when the newborn Jesus was taken hurriedly by Mary and Joseph to a place of greater safety, away from the murderous campaign against…