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Reports and College Activities Confirmations in Michaelmas 2021 the year. The Temple Soc discussion group, named for former fellow and wartime Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple, continues to be enjoyed and valued by a growing number of students. We have often run out of seats in the Chaplain’s room, though never out of cake! We were delighted to welcome in person Prof Tom McLeish, one of our video guest preachers from the previous year, to lead a Temple Soc discussion on science and faith. The pandemic has also seen greater compassion and concern for issues of social justice and environmental sustainability. Last year I reported on our Creation Justice 2021 programme running through Hilary Term. This year, the theme for Hilary Term was Food for Thought, tying in with the College’s Dining Right programme and ongoing discussions within the College community about sustainability and inclusivity in our catering. I was particularly honoured to welcome fellow chaplains Shaunaka Rishi Das and Rabbi Michael Rosenfeld-Schueler, and Islamic scholar Dr Shabbir Akhtar, to discuss the role of food in our respective faith traditions. Hilary Term was a bittersweet term for me personally, as the College recruited my successor as Chaplain, and I in turn announced my appointment as Vicar 44 The Queen’s College | College Record 2022
of Wantage. The new College Chaplain is the Revd Alice Watson, a graduate of both Cambridge and Oxford, who has just completed her curacy in Kettering. It feels affirming that the College has for a second time appointed a female chaplain at the end of her curacy: it evidently worked out all right last time! But I am equally confident that Alice will bring her own gifts and direction to Chapel life. Most of all, these times have called for courage. Although the College may sometimes feel like an oasis from the ‘real world’, we find ourselves at the cutting edge of the social debates and challenges that will face the generation to come. There is no more real and urgent task than building a community which lives well and functions together in a changing world. I’ve always sought to make the Chapel a place of challenge as well as comfort – even if I haven’t always got that right. Sermon highlights this year included the Revd Augustine Tanner-Ihm’s African-American take on the Gospel of Luke, entitled “Who’s invited to the cookout?”, and Remembrance Sunday with former Northern Ireland politician and conflict expert Lord Alderdice. Reports and College Activities Summer was a valedictory season in more ways than one. As well as an emotional farewell service – for departing students and departing Chaplain alike! – the Chapel hosted a number of memorials for Honorary and Emeritus Fellows: Dr Morrin Acheson (1925-2020) Emeritus Fellow in Chemistry; Dr Peter Neumann (1940-2020) Emeritus Fellow in Mathematics; Prof Brian McGuinness (1927-2019) Emeritus Fellow in Philosophy; and medieval historian the Revd Prof Colin Morris (1928-2021) Old Member and Honorary Fellow. The quotation with which I began is most familiar from the funeral service. A downbeat note, perhaps, after a largely positive year in the life of the Chapel! I am writing this in drought-stricken August (hopefully long forgotten by the time you read this) so perhaps I am merely inspired by the yellowing lawn I can see behind my vicarage in Wantage. But this year has been for me one of beginnings and endings. The transience of the College community can be a surprising strength – I recall some of the early changes I made in the Chapel, which I’d never get away with in a parish full of people who remember how it’s ‘always been done’! But it also demands a particular grace of letting go. It has been a joy to see the life of the College and Chapel restored to something like its pre-pandemic vitality. I’ve also been humbled by how many students and colleagues have taken the time to express their appreciation for my ministry here. Now it’s my turn to vacate the Chaplain’s stall once more, and to join the community of those whose lives have briefly intersected with that of the College, and then gone their separate ways. All that remains is to thank everyone for five amazing years, and to assure you of my prayers and blessings for all that is to come. College Record 2022 | The Queen’s College 45
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