Step Count Challenge
Good evening, It’s early July, and time to look back on eight weeks of the Step Count Challenge. Your Chaplaincy team, the St Andrews Peregrinos, comprising students, chaplains and a Chaplaincy friend (and her dog)…
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Graduation Thanksgiving Services
Good morning, It is truly wonderful to be anticipating Graduations in the University which begin on Monday. Both the summer graduations of 2020 and 2021 were postponed, and my own contribution was recording the Latin…
Garden for Reflection
Good evening, The Chaplaincy is working with colleagues from Estates and others on a Garden for Reflection. In words largely drafted by Barbara Davey, our honorary Quaker Chaplain, the garden’s inspiration is born from…
Holy Week Services
Good morning, We have entered Holy Week, so named because it is the time Christians commemorate God’s deepest acts of self-giving: Jesus being anointed with perfume, denouncing the money-makers in the Temple, washing…
Assistant Chaplain (Interfaith, Environmental & Digital) Advert
Good morning, I’m writing today with details of a new Assistant Chaplain’s job here in St Andrews which has just been advertised. There has been a recognition in the University that Sam, the honorary team, our…
St Andrews Stands with Ukraine_Images
Good evening, It’s nearing the end of the week, and I thought I’d share images from the event on Wednesday which I introduced, St Andrews Stands with Ukraine. What an extraordinary sky. And indeed, as we walked back…
St Andrews Stands with Ukraine
Good morning, St Andrews Stands with Ukraine A reminder that this evening (Wednesday 30 March) the University will be supporting the efforts of our town, students and staff, to make our voices heard in a direct…
Chaplaincy Prize Winners
Good afternoon, I’m writing with news of a mass rally for peace in Ukraine taking place in St Andrews next Wednesday 30 March. This is a response to President Zelensky’s call on people to come from their offices,…
Companionship Anniversary
Good morning, Exactly two years ago, on 15 March 2020, I sent the first Companionship email. This was to offer support and encouragement as our lives became more isolated as pandemic restrictions increased almost…
International Women’s Day
Good morning… …on International Women’s Day. Here are some contributions for reflection today. First, words by Kathleen Jamie, Scotland’s Makar: Voice of the Wood SO YOU’VE REALLY GONE AND DONE IT THIS TIME you are…