Don’t wake up – Keep Awake
Preacher: Dr Euan Grant, Research Fellow, School of Divinity Readings: Isaiah 64:1-9; Mark 13:24-37 ‘O that you would tear open the heavens and come down!’ Can you pray that? Could you pray that? Of course, to pray…
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Duty of Candour
Preacher: Revd Dr Donald MacEwan Reading: Philippians 4:4-13 My mother’s school in Glasgow was called Laurel Bank. Its motto was drawn from today’s Bible lesson in the Authorized Version – Whatsoever Things Are…
Knit one, pray one…
The Reverend Samantha Ferguson Readings: Job 19:21-27; John 6:37-40 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. Today, this week, this month and this year it has all been…
Eden – Where it all went wrong, theologically
Preacher: Jayne Ozanne Readings: Genesis 3:1-19; 2 Corinthians 4:16-18; 5:16-21 I lost my cat a few weeks ago – which has rather turned my world upside down. If you’ve ever lost an animal, you’ll know the heart…
The Parable of the Two Sons
Preacher: Mgr Patrick Burke, Vicar General, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh Readings: Ezekiel 18: 1-4, 25-32; Matthew 21: 23-32 It is, I think, 38 years since I arrived at this University to…
Agents of Grace
Preacher: Revd Sam Ferguson, Assistant Chaplain Readings: Exodus 16: 2-15; Philippians 1: 21-30; Matthew 20: 1-16 So how has your first full week of learning online, on teams, of even in person – gone? Not quite what…
The Lovely Virtue
Preacher: Revd Dr Donald MacEwan, University Chaplain Readings: Exodus 14:19-31; Matthew 10:5-10, 26-32 There is quite a lot to be frightened of. I remember my first days as a student in Aberdeen. I arrived in Hillhead…
Out of Eden
Preacher: Revd Dr Donald MacEwan, University Chaplain Readings: Genesis 2:4b-15; Romans 13:8-14; Matthew 18:15-20 Exactly 200 years ago in 1820, a banner was embroidered in silk for the Adam’s Lodge of the Free…
My whole wide world went zoom
Preacher: Revd Dr Donald MacEwan Readings: Acts 17:16-31; John 14:15-24 When the apostle Paul visited Athens, he saw the temples of their religions, the shrines to their gods, he heard the high priests of their…
Blessed are the doubters
Preacher: Revd Prof Ian Bradley Readings: Hebrews 11:1-13a; John 20: 19-31 Today is traditionally called Low Sunday in the church calendar in contrast to last week’s high Sunday of Easter. Cynics say this is also a…