Rowan the less
I'm an Anglican priest called Rowan Williams- but no, not THAT Rowan Williams. Hence the name of this website. Besides, he was here first.
I'm the Anglican chaplain to the University of York, where I work in an ecumenical team with a Roman Catholic priest and a Methodist minister. Together with a fantastic bunch of students and staff, we help the university think about what faith has to offer the institution at all sorts of levels. We're not just about providing pastoral and spiritual care, though those are very important things to do, but about facilitating intelligent conversation about what it means to be human- which, for us, means made in the image of God. In the current economic climate, it would be easy for everyone involved in higher education to be seduced by the need to prove we offer value for money in the work we do. Chaplaincy is about much more than that, and we want to encourage everyone involved in a university to believe that the 'student experience' (and, come to that, the research and teaching experience, the admin experience and the support experience) is about far more than contact hours or how much you get paid after you graduate.
You can see more about the chaplaincy and what we do on our webpage, www.york.ac.uk/chaplaincy/
As you will see, my webpage-building skills are fairly basic as yet. But I'm learning. Slowly.
I'm the Anglican chaplain to the University of York, where I work in an ecumenical team with a Roman Catholic priest and a Methodist minister. Together with a fantastic bunch of students and staff, we help the university think about what faith has to offer the institution at all sorts of levels. We're not just about providing pastoral and spiritual care, though those are very important things to do, but about facilitating intelligent conversation about what it means to be human- which, for us, means made in the image of God. In the current economic climate, it would be easy for everyone involved in higher education to be seduced by the need to prove we offer value for money in the work we do. Chaplaincy is about much more than that, and we want to encourage everyone involved in a university to believe that the 'student experience' (and, come to that, the research and teaching experience, the admin experience and the support experience) is about far more than contact hours or how much you get paid after you graduate.
You can see more about the chaplaincy and what we do on our webpage, www.york.ac.uk/chaplaincy/
As you will see, my webpage-building skills are fairly basic as yet. But I'm learning. Slowly.