Happy New Year!
Happy new year! I hope you have had a relaxing and refreshing time over the Christmas and New Year holidays. Days in St Andrews were often murky and wet, but sometimes there was a crispness to the air, and lovely…
Category: Companionship Blog
Cancelled University Carol Service
Good evening, Some 21 months since the first Companionship email, I feel tonight as if we are not far from where we started. I am writing with deeply disappointing news. The Principal has written to say that she has…
St Andrew’s Day 2021
Happy St Andrew’s Day! Our Advent Calendar proper will start tomorrow, on the first of December, but I thought we could begin with a taster today. Each day until Christmas I will send out an Advent Calendar message…
On this eve of Advent
Good morning, I hope you have made it safely through Storm Arwen. I was returning yesterday evening from a Christmas High Table dinner at University Hall and found the way blocked on Kennedy Gardens because of a…
Services of Thanksgiving for Graduation
Good evening, It is just over a week until the first of the University’s four graduation ceremonies this winter. The first two ceremonies take place on St Andrew’s Day, Tuesday 30 November, and the following two will…
Planting for the Planet
Good morning, It’s a beautiful morning in St Andrews, and looks good for Planting for the Planet this afternoon! Hope to see you for planting some crocus bulbs, and learning about gardens in different faiths and…
Final day of Summer
Good evening, This is final day of summer – British Summer Time that is. Tonight the clocks go back, and we revert to Greenwich Mean Time. Daylight will come an hour earlier from tomorrow, but with the inexorable…
Book Launch ‘God is Green: Christianity and the Environment’
Good morning, A quick reminder that this evening (Wednesday 13 October) we have the opportunity of hearing from Ian Bradley about his new book, God is Green: Christianity and the Environment. This excellent and…
‘Fond memories of St Monans’
Good morning, Yesterday was 20 years to the day since Maya and I moved to Fife. We arrived around midnight having travelled all day from Laytown, Co Meath, in the Republic of Ireland. In our car, our faithful Ford…
Looking back over the past decade
Greetings, Today is my tenth anniversary as Chaplain to the University. On Thursday 1 September 2011 I drove to St Andrews from St Monans where I was still living, and met the Chaplaincy secretaries Tracy and Emma,…