Advent: 8 December 2022
Good morning, on Thursday 8 December, which means that behind our Advent Calendar window we find the letter I. I is, of course, for the place Jesus wasn’t born – the inn, in which there was no room. Instead he was…
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Advent: 7 December 2022
Greetings, This Advent Calendar comes to you from London, where I’ll be conducting the University’s London Alumni Club’s Carol Service this evening. We’ll be gathering at St Columba’s Church of Scotland, Pont Street…
Advent: 6 December 2022
Greetings, A happy St Nicholas’ Day to you – einen schönen St. Nikolaustag. I hope, if you put your boots outside your door last night, they were filled with good things. Behind today’s window in our Advent Calendar…
Advent: 5 December 2022
Greetings, We’ve reached the letter F in our Advent Calendar A to Z. And F is for… Family. After all, what is the Christmas story but the growing of a family, the birth of Mary’s first child, who would be brought up…
Advent: 4 December 2022
Good morning, …on this the second Sunday of Advent. Behind today’s window in our Advent Calendar we discover that E is for Epiphany. This is the word used in English for the feast on 6 January for the coming of the…
Advent: 3 December 2022
Good morning, Today’s window is the fourth in our Advent Calendar A to Z. And D is for… David. David was King of Israel around a thousand years before the birth of Jesus. He was a shepherd-lad who was chosen by God…
Advent: 1 December 2022
Welcome to the second day of the A to Z Advent Calendar, drawing on quotations from my newly digitised collection – and thank you for initial responses to yesterday’s window. B is for… the Baptist. During Advent we…
November graduations
Good evening, Today was the first day of our November graduations. The sun shone over a hint of frost in the town as the day began with a service in St Salvator’s Chapel. The chapel was packed – how lovely it was to…
Advent: 30 November 2022
Welcome to this year’s Advent Calendar. Every day from now until Christmas Day, an email will bring you a new window in this Advent Calendar, opening on to words, music, art and more to help us reflect on the Christmas…
The Last Woman Born reading
Greetings, A quick reminder of the visit of Sharon Black to St Andrews on Wednesday to read from her new volume of poetry, The Last Woman Born on the Island, which I have read with great pleasure. Sharon and I grew up…