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News from the University Church
January 17th, 2025 at 10:00 am BSTView onlineA City Built on a Hill by the Revd Naomi Gardom In this cold season, I’m seeking warmth from memories of sunnier trips. When I was 19, I spent three weeks in July with the Taizé community in the Burgundy region of France. My time was ...
Happy New Year from the University Church
January 10th, 2025 at 1:00 pm BSTView onlineBeauty by Dr Sarah Mortimer On this day 380 years ago Archbishop William Laud was executed for treason – one of the more dramatic ends to an episcopal tenure. One of the charges brought at his trial was that the porch his chaplain had ...
Happy New Year from the University Church
January 3rd, 2025 at 9:00 am BSTView onlineWhat’s feeding your faith? by the Revd Hannah Cartwright There has been much recent discussion about the impact that UPFs (Ultra Processed Foods) are having on our health. These are typically highly-refined foods that possess little nu ...
Happy Christmas from the University Church
December 24th, 2024 at 5:17 pm BSTView onlineBirth is Awaking by the Revd Canon Dr William Lamb It is good that Christmas comes at the dark dream of the year That might wish to sleep ever. For birth is awaking, birth is effort and pain; And now at midwinter are the hints, inklin ...
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December 20th, 2024 at 10:00 am BSTView onlinePatience on a Monument by the Revd Naomi Gardom Henry Moore (1898-1986), Madonna and Child (1943-4), St Matthew’s Church, Northampton This Advent, I have been seeking out all sorts of images of the Madonna and Child. These images give ...
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December 13th, 2024 at 4:29 pm BSTView onlineGod chose weakness... by the Revd Hannah Cartwright As Christmas preparations gather pace, my thoughts begin to turn towards the crib; that cosy nest of hay, surrounded by oxen gently lowing as they await the Christ-child who would soon ...
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December 13th, 2024 at 12:05 pm BSTView onlineGod chose weakness... by the Revd Hannah Cartwright As Christmas preparations gather pace, my thoughts begin to turn towards the crib; that cosy nest of hay, surrounded by oxen gently lowing as they await the Christ-child who would soon ...
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December 6th, 2024 at 1:00 pm BSTView onlineIn the waiting… by Joanna Barrington I have a repetitive bad habit which rears it’s head annually - I never remember to begin burning my advent candle on December 1st! I guiltily spend a few hours burning it down during the first wee ...
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November 29th, 2024 at 3:55 pm BSTView onlineTitle by the Revd Canon Dr William Lamb A Matter of Conscience Members of Parliament have just voted on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. The Bill is to allow adults who are terminally ill, subject to safeguards and protectio ...
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November 22nd, 2024 at 10:00 am BSTView onlineThe Problem of Evil by the Revd Naomi Gardom ‘The Bible is a theodicy, a meditation on the problem of evil.’ So begins Marilynne Robinson’s commentary on the book of Genesis, the focus of our Bible study this term. The question of ...