News (Page 40)

Director of Music

In the summer Chris Pountain will be retiring from his role as Director of Music at St Andrew’s after 11 inspiring years under his leadership.  We are therefore on the hunt for a successor! We are a busy and thriving parish church which values the young and the aged, old and new, liturgy and informality, Scripture and sacrament, the contemplative and the…

Lent at St Andrew’s

Through Lent with Luke Beginning during the week 18-22 February During Lent we will be reading through Luke’s account of the journey to Jerusalem (from 9.51).  We are encouraging the reading of a portion of the narrative during each week and will be including passages  from these in our morning and evening services.  Lent groups on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings and Thursday…

Questioning Faith

      Nick will be repeating his series of talks and discussions, on four Mondays beginning on 14 January, at St Andrew’s Hall (room 1), 7.45-9.15pm.  The four weeks will cover: The sea of faith—has the tide gone out? The question of suffering—can we believe in a loving God? In what sense may Jesus be the way to God? What should we believe…

Week of Prayer

We are having a Week of Prayer  in the week 24-30 November, leading up to St Andrew’s Day.  There will be three parts of the week: The church will be open all week and there will be a prayer net held out by our statue of St Andrew – come and add your prayer to it. During the first part of the…

Questioning Faith

This autumn’s calendar includes a number of events for those questioning the whole area of faith and, in particular, faith in the God of Christianity.  Richard Holloway, a former Bishop of Edinburgh, has publicly articulated  his rethinking about his own faith: Nick Moir will be speaking about this at the 10am service on Sunday 23 September under the title ‘Losing my religion’: Richard Holloway,…

Imagining the Future

Bishop Stephen has published a document entitled “Imagining the Future” intended to start a conversation throughout the diocese. The PCC will consider the document at our next meeting in July. You can read the document here, or contact Nick for a printed copy.