What we do
Supporting your faith at Kingston University
The Chaplaincy works in partnership with local faith communities to offer spiritual care to all students and staff
What we stand for
Support
Listening, guidance, friendship and prayer
Community
Building relationships and trust
Understanding
Learning about our own beliefs and those of others
Creativity
Seeing the world in new ways
Spirituality
Exploring faith, prayer and meaning
from Stan Brown: University Chaplain:
Exams are now over in the university which is entering its summer mode. Although few students are around this is a surprisingly busy time for administrative staff who are frantically preparing for the next intake, and for our property team who must work to tight deadlines to complete repairs and new projects before the next academic year. Meanwhile academics are trying to meet research deadlines in the gap between teaching semesters. The suggestion that “this is your quiet time” can be very irritating to these colleagues some of whom don’t get a summer break at all. It’s a “swans on the river” situation. Above all is calm, whilst beneath there is frantic paddling going on.
Does your life feel like that – a calm face to the world and beneath a continual struggle? That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Jesus taught that when we chose to engage in challenging spiritual struggles we should not show this to the world lest it becomes a source of pride. Matthew 6:16-18
- The chaplaincy runs a full programme of drop ins, meetings, worship and events during teaching periods. Find out more
University Chaplain Rev.
Stan Brown is a Christian minister working full time in the university. More chaplaincy contacts