University Preachers 2010-2011
We are pleased to welcome guest preachers from various denominations and backgrounds to our Sunday services (11.00am) in St Salvator's Chapel with the exception of those services during January 2011 which will be held in St Leonard's Chapel. Services in St Salvator's will resume on Sunday 30 January.
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 2010-2011
| Date | Preacher | Sermon |
|---|---|---|
| 19 September |
Informal Service |
'Startled into Faith' |
| 26 September | The Rev Dr Jamie Walker University Chaplain |
'The Crucial Question' |
| 3 October |
550th Anniversary of the Chapel and Dedication of the Bells |
'Founding the Household of God' |
| 10 October | Fiona Barnard Honorary Lay Chaplain (Baptist) |
'Entertaining Angels' |
| 17 October One World Week |
One World Week The Rev Susan Brown Minister of Dornoch Cathedral |
'Thank God!' |
| 24 October | The Rev Roger Simpson Vicar of St Michael of the Belfrey, York |
An Eye Opener |
| 31 October | The Rev Canon Dr Michael Fuller Training officer for the Theological Institute of the Scottish Episcopal Church and former research Chemist |
'Science, Theology and Story' |
| 7 November | The Very Rev Dom David Foster Prior and Novice Master of Downside Abbey in Somerset |
'Alive to God: Monks in today's world' |
| 14 November | Remembrance Sunday The Rev Norman Drummond Founder and Chairman, Columba 1400 |
'Where are you in the story?' |
| 21 November | Christ the King The Rev Dr Jamie Walker University Chaplain |
'Too Strange to be true?' |
| 28 November | St Andrew's & Advent Dr Fiona Douglas Chaplain to Dundee University |
'How do we know these things?' |
| 5 December | The Rt Rev David Chillingworth Scottish Episcopal Bishop of St Andrews, Dunblane and Dunkeld, and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church |
‘Tell it like it is!’ |
| 12 December | The Rev Professor Jeremy Begbie Thomas A Langford Research Professor, Duke Univerity |
'What silences heaven?' |
Christmas Vacation |
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| 9 January | The Rev Dr Jamie Walker University Chaplain |
'Into 2011' |
| 16 January | Dr Charles Warren Senior Lecturer in the School of Geography & Geosciences |
'Shifting sands and solid rock' |
| 23 January | Professor Robert Crawford Professor of English |
'When I cry with my voice' |
| 30 January | The Rev Dr Ian Bradley Reader in Church History and Practical Theology, and Honorary Chaplain |
'In the beginning was the word .. and then the tune' |
Candlemas semester
| Date | Preacher | Sermon |
|---|---|---|
| 6 February | Professor Ivor Davidson Principal of St Mary's College |
'Reckoning with God' |
| 13 February | Professor Ard Louis Reader in Theoretical Physics, Oxford University |
'Science and Faith: friend of foe? |
| 20 February | Lent Bishop Joe Aldred Churches Together in Britain & Ireland |
'It's a hard thing you ask Lord' |
| 27 February | Commemoration of Founders and Benefactors The Rt Rev John Cairns Christie Moderator of the 2010 General Assembly of the Church of Scotland |
'Careless in the Care of God' |
| 6 March | The Most Rev Archbishop Gregorios Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Great Britain |
'Reflections and thoughts on the Sacred Period of the Great Lent' |
| 13 March | The Rev Canon George Kovoor Principal Trinity College, Bristol |
'Lord, you have come to the seashore' |
| 20 March | The Rev David Strachan Joint Managing Director of Tern Televison Productions |
'Absolute and Relative' |
Spring Vacation |
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| 10 April | Adrian Plass Christian Writer & Broadcaster |
'Inappropriate Fire' |
| 17 April | The Rt Rev Tom Wright Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity |
'Jesus in the Perfect Storm' |
| 24 April | Easter The Rev Dr Jamie Walker University Chaplain |
'Jesus alive' |
| 1 May | Father Jock Dalrymple Parish Priest of St John's Vianney's Gilmerton & St Gregory's, Edinburgh |
'The risen Jesus retains his wounds' |
| 8 May | Dr Elaine Storkey President of Tearfund |
'A changed destination' |
| 15 May | The Rev Christopher Woods College Chaplain, Christ's College, Cambridge |
'How to look good (spiritually) naked' |
| 22 May | The Rev Dr Jamie Walker University Chaplain |
'New Horizons' |