Dates for your diary
Greetings, How’s the heat where you are? It’s been hot and dry here most of the time, with genuine pool parties at Castle Sands, and, more seriously, a fire in a field near the Fairmont Hotel on Thursday. It all…
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Summer update from the Chaplain
Good afternoon, I am writing with some news of the Chaplaincy team, and reflections on the summer so far. I am delighted to announce that we have appointed our new Assistant Chaplain for Interfaith, Environmental and…
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)…
‘Final graduation services, and King Creosote!’
Good morning, Two weeks of graduations lie behind us, three days to go, on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week. So far, it has been truly joyful to see graduates cross the stage whom Sam, others in the Chaplaincy…
‘Graduations, services and dancing in the Quad!’
Good evening, I’m just sending this out quickly following a fine Fireside Chat with Dr Fiona Hill, exploring a Co. Durham upbringing, education in St Andrews, Putin’s Russia, and teamwork in the White House among other…
Graduation ceremonies and thanksgiving services
Good morning, Graduations have begun and the town is abuzz with students dressed in black and white scurrying to collect tickets, gowns and parents, then, after the ceremony, processing and being photographed…
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…
Earth Day 22 April 2022
Loving greetings to you all on Earth Day 2022! We belong to the Land The Land does not belong to us Native wisdom from Australia Responding to the ravages of a massive oil-spill off the coast of California, and…
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…