January 30, 2011 Envy – Dante’s Il Purgatorio, Canto XIII 37-72 and James 3: 13-18 – The Chaplain The Chaplains’ Event taking place all this week, Exploring Faith, is an event that used to be called ‘The Chaplains’ Mission’. In essence, this…
January 16, 2011 Dante Sermon Series Introduction – The Chaplain I was having dinner in Worcester, sometime last term, and the conversation came round to the subject of the sermon series this term. As…
November 14, 2010 Remembrance Day – Very Rev'd June Osborne Prince Harry came to Wiltshire this week. He was present when a new Field of Remembrance for those killed in Afghanistan was dedicated at…
November 11, 2010 Feast of St Martin – Fr. Nicholas King Ninety years ago today, at 11.00am on the 11th day of the eleventh month, after two minutes of silence, King George V dedicated the…
October 31, 2010 All Saints – Rt. Rev'd Dr John Saxbee Saints bother me and I’m not quite sure why. It is not difficult to describe what a Saint is. A Saint is one ·…
October 24, 2010 A response to government spending cuts – Jonathan Bartley How might we assess and respond to the Government’s long awaited Spending Review? Not perhaps a question that you would expect Jesus to be…
October 10, 2010 Freshers' Sermon – The Chaplain Words from St. John’s Gospel: ‘You did not choose me: I chose you. I appointed you to go on and bear fruit, fruit that…
June 13, 2010 Leavers' Sermon – The Chaplain In 1989, when I came up to Oxford as an undergraduate at St. Peter’s I was told on my matriculation day, by a certain…
June 10, 2010 Feast of the Sacred Heart – Fr. Nicholas King Today’s feast is, you may feel, a very Catholic one, associated with some very kitsch art, and some undesirable sentimentality, and not at all…
June 6, 2010 Music, Theology and the Chapel – Dr Susan Gillingham We have had a wonderful year of chapel music. So, as we approach the end of this academic year, it seems appropriate to say…