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Linda Bongiorno

Dried up, burned out, but what comes next

Preacher: Revd Dr Benjamin Doolittle, Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics and Divinity, Yale School of MedicineReadings: Ezekiel 37:1-14; John 11:1-45 Greetings and good cheer to you all from Yale University, an…

Shoot out of a Dry and Frozen Ground

Preacher: Revd Dr Urzula Glienecke, Associate Chaplain, University of EdinburghReadings: Isaiah 11:1-10; Matthew 3:1-12 Close your eyes if you’re comfortable with that and take a couple of deep breaths. Just inand out.…

Remembering War and Peace

Preacher: Revd Canon Prof Mark Chapman, Associate Director, Cuddeson Study CentreReadings: Micah 4:1-8; Luke 1:68-79 As somebody who is a professor of ‘history’, in my case the ‘history of modern theology’, I suppose…

Sorry, Not Sorry

Preacher: Revd Dr Donald MacEwan, University ChaplainReadings: Jeremiah 14:7-10; 19-22; Luke 18:9-14 The best stories keep being re-told.  Think of the real-life story of Henry VIII, married six times, a life re-told…

Pray, always

Preacher: Revd Samantha Ferguson, Assistant ChaplainReadings: 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5; Luke 18:1-8 In the name of the father, and of the son and of the holy spirit. Congratulations! We have successfully reached the mid…

Casting, Tuning, Ringing

Preacher: Revd Dr Donald MacEwan, University ChaplainReadings: 1 Corinthians 13; John 13:31-35 I love the sound of the bells from St Salvator’s Tower.  I hear them – as we all do in St Andrews – on Sunday mornings, or…

“Look, your king is coming to you.”

Preacher: Revd Giles Dove, Assistant University ChaplainReadings: Zechariah 9:9-12; Matthew 21:1-11 May I speak in the name of the Living God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  Amen. “Look, your king is coming to you.”…

Location, location, location

Preacher: Revd Dr Donald MacEwan, University ChaplainReadings: Isaiah 65:17-25; Luke 24:1-12 The Christian faith is deeply bound up with place.  Jesus is Jesus of Nazareth, born in Bethlehem, grew up in Galilee, was…

How we worship

Preacher: Revd Bethan Rodden, Assistant Curate, St Mark’s Newnham and St Andrews and St Mary’s GrantchesterReadings: Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10; Luke 4:14-21 Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts…