‘Little freedoms’
Dear Friends Welcome to Thursday’s Companionship Email and Happy Ascension Day. Isn’t it amazing how quickly our daily routines have adapted to being in Lockdown? From getting up for an early walk with facemask, gloves…
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‘With kindness’
Greetings, This week is Mental Health Awareness Week with the theme this year of kindness. Our own University’s Wellbeing and Engagement Group has focussed on kindness in its new edition of Well Now, the Wellbeing…
‘The boy, the horse, the mole and the fox’
Good afternoon, Today’s contribution is from Fiona Barnard, our Honorary International Students Chaplain: One day, in the distant past when we could freely visit shops, I was enjoying a quick snoop around a bookstore.…
‘The sickness of war’
Good afternoon, Quite early in this time of constraints on our public life, a friend on the mailing list sent this to me, from the UN Secretary General António Guterres : Our world faces a common enemy: COVID-19. The…
‘My whole wide world went zoom’
Good afternoon… …half way through the exams, and the penultimate Sunday of the semester. Thank you to all the speakers, musicians and worshippers who contributed to today’s online service. Here is the sermon I gave in…
‘Our work done?’
Good afternoon, Today’s Companionship reflection comes from Barbara Davey, Honorary Quaker Chaplain: Alongside the heartache, the anxiety, and the distress of recent weeks, there have been unexpected riches, and one of…
‘Sea Fever’
Greetings, A couple from St Albans were fined by police recently for driving to Camber, East Sussex to walk on the beach, a round trip of 210 miles. I have some sympathy with this couple. For people in St Andrews and…
‘Blowin’ in the wind’
Good morning, Today’s Companionship reflection is from Kitty Macintyre, our honorary Pagan Chaplain: The weather changed on Saturday evening. The still, warm, cloudless skies suddenly filled with movement, moisture and…
‘St Salvator’s Chapel from all sides but inside – images
Hi, As promised, some more images from recent walks showing Sallies Chapel and Tower from different sides. We look forward to experiencing the chapel from another side when we can – the inside. Yours, Donald.
St Salvator’s Chapel from all sides but inside’
Good morning, Many people are missing being in their usual places of worship at this time, not least Muslims during Ramadan. I haven’t been in either St Leonard’s or St Salvator’s Chapel since the buildings were…