Chaplaincy in the Church Times
Cambridge is 800 years old this year, and the Church Times is celebrating us today with a feature on Chapels and Chaplaincy in the University. Among interviews with the Deans and Chaplains of Trinity, Johns and Emmanuel, she writes about me and Robinson Chapel. here's a snip:
"The red-brick chapel at Robinson is famous for the streaming glory of its John Piper window. Dr Dawn has put a lot of thought and experiment into getting people to engage with the building, even if they are not practising Christians.
“One of the anomalies of chapel in a college like this, even more than the traditional college, is that we take in a student body which is largely not interested or au fait with Christian devotions at all,” she reflects.
“A lot of people come here specifically because they like the idea that it is modern and progressive. The chapel just gives permission to people to have a belief. It says that to be an intellectual and rational person in the 21st century, in one of the best universities in the world, doesn’t mean you can’t have faith…”
For the rest see the Church Times (you can subscribe online for individual issues of the paper)
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Thanks for posting this Maggie
I am actually debating whether I will use it as part of a liturgy of repentance – sin is just about missing the target.
Anyway I found reading it quite liberating.
I think that we fail in life, somewhere, or someway. No one is perfect, unless they are Jesus, so we have failed when we don’t measure up to him in life.
He left us with the hope and inspiration of his life, to succeed, but it can be so hard trying.