Year: 2022
THE TWELVE DAYS OF DOODLING Before writing and drawing were separated they were conjoined.* Scott McCloud Pictures and words together make a third thing.** John Baldessari It was suggested that I write something about doodling for this Christmas-time blog – It’s a great time to doodle – So here we are: Twelve good reasons for […]
Pilgrimage on the Margins: Sharing Stories ‘As we are approaching Interfaith Week Scotland which focuses on storytelling, allow me to share some stories,’ writes Associate Chaplain Urzula Glienecke. The man in the silk suit Alex had been a leading manager of a large company, a high flyer and successful. Then the financial crisis came […]
When I go cycling down to St Abbs, I pass a farm with a board outside saying ‘Growing great vegetables’ and I feel admiration and envy! I want a strapline like that for the Chaplaincy: no nonsense, say it like it is, state what you do. But I can’t think of one! We do have […]
The Chaplaincy Common Room is a warm space with tables, chairs and sofas, open 9.30am-4pm daily Monday to Friday for all students and staff. You can come and study, meet friends, or eat your lunch, and help yourself to tea and coffee. Associate Chaplain Geoffrey Baines was so inspired by it, he wrote a prose […]
It’s Welcome Week! And so much is new: the semester, the academic year, maybe even a new degree. There is a new monarch on the throne, and a new Prime Minister in Downing Street. The blackberries are fading now, but colour is on its way to the trees, and the lawns have greened once […]
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