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University Chapel Preachers 2007-2008

We are pleased to welcome guest preachers from various denominations and backgrounds to our Sunday services (11.00am) in St Salvator's Chapel.

Following the services a number of sermons will be available online with the kind permission of the preacher. This year's preachers are as follows:

Martinmas Semester

Date	Preacher	Sermon
30th September	The Rev Dr James B Walker University Chaplain	New Horizons
7th October	The Rev Fiona Douglas Chaplain to the University of Dundee	The Right to Believe
14th October	Abbot Richard Yeo Abbot President of the English Benedictine Congregation	Avarice and Desire
21st October One World Week	Professor Simon Conway Morris FRS Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology at Cambridge University	Gardening: its cosmic significance
28th October	Canon Dr Judith Maltby Chaplain and Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford and Reader in Church History, University of Oxford	A Cloud of Witnesses
4th November	Fr Colin Dickson Assistant Priest of St Michael's & All Angels with St James, Croydon. Anglican Chaplain to Croydon College	The darkness and light are alike to Thee...
11th November Remembrance Sunday	The Rev Sandy Fraser Minister at Gartcosh linked with Glenboig Parish Churches, North Lanarkshire	Lest we forget
18th November	The Rev Dr Helen-Ann Hartley Assistant Curate in the Benefice of Wheatley, Diocese of Oxford, and Tutor in New Testament at Ripon College Cuddesdon	Not the end of the world
25th November St Andrew's Celebration (Christ the King)	The Rev Dr Robin Hill Minister of Gladsmuir & Longniddry, East Lothian	Much feasting in November
2nd December Advent Sunday	Fiona Barnard-Smith Honorary Lay Chaplain: Baptist	Waiting on tiptoe
9th December	The Rt Revd Peter Foster Anglican Bishop of Chester	'Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand'
16th December	The Rev Dr Jamie Walker University Chaplain	Taking the low road
18th December Alumni Carol Service	The Rev Gareth Saunders Assistant Information Architect/Web Manager	Christmas Lights
13th January	The Rev Dr Jamie Walker University Chaplain	Into 2008
20th January	Rev Dr Steve Holmes Lecturer in Theology and Managing Editor of International Systematic Theology	Come and see
27th January	Professor John Haldane Professor of Moral Philosophy	'Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand'
3rd February	Dr Rona Ramsay Reader in the School of Biology	Christian Evolution

Candlemas Semester

Date	Preacher	Sermon
10th February First Sunday of Lent	The Rt Rev John Mantle Scottish Episcopal Bishop of Brechin	Christ: Power & Powerlessness
17th February	The Rev Bill Slack General Director of the Baptist Union of Scotland	New Beginnings with God
24th February Commemoration of Founders and Benefactors	The Rev Dr Sheilagh Kesting Moderator of the 2007 General Assembly of the Church of Scotland	Pushing at the Boundaries
2nd March	Professor Robert White, FRS Professor of Geophysics, Cambridge University and Associate Director, Faraday Institute for Science & Religion	A Good Planet?
9th March	The Rev Katei Kirby Chief Executive Officer of the African and Caribbean Evangelical Alliance, and a Minister at the Wesleyan Holiness Church (Greenwich)	Take a risk and pray!
16th March Passion / Palm Sunday	The Rev David Richards St Paul's & St George's, Scottish Episcopal Church, Edinburgh	Radical Leadership
23rd March Easter Day	The Rev Dr Jamie Walker University Chaplain	Tambourines & Dancing
13th April	The Rt Rev John Cunningham Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Galloway	Christian Vocation
20th April	Dr Nathan MacDonald Lecturer in Old Testament	The Blessing of the Triune God
27th April	Fr Jim McManus Rector of the Redemptorist Centre of Spirituality in Perth	The Glory of God: The Human Person Fully Alive
4th May Ascension	The Rev Canon Lucy Winkett Precentor of St Paul's Cathedral, London	Why gaze up into the sky?
11th May Pentecost	The Rev Ian Watson Minister, Kirkmuirhill Parish Church, and Secretary of Forward Together	Jesus - Who is he Really?
18th May	The Rt Rev Dr Thomas Butler Anglican Bishop of Southwark	The New Mysics
25th May	The Rev Dr Jamie Walker University Chaplain	Catching a Vision