After a full day, relax, breathe deep and welcome the blessings of the night with a short time of quiet worship in the atmospheric St John’s College Chapel.
Doug Gay is Senior Lecturer in Practical Theology at the University of Glasgow. He is a Church of Scotland minister and has taught preaching and worship to ministry students for many years. He is author of Remixing the Church, Reforming the Kirk (based on his Chalmers Lectures) and God Be In My Mouth: 40 Ways to Grow as a Preacher. His next book, Teach Us To Pray, on leading congregational prayer will be published in 2027 and he is currently writing on reformed theology and democracy.
Ally Barrett is a published writer, hymnodist and painter. She studied both music and theology at Clare College, Cambridge. Since her ordination in 2003 she has served as a parish priest, a children’s minister in the USA, a theological college tutor in pastoral and practical theology, and as Dean of Chapel at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, before moving to her current role as Associate Vicar of Great St Mary’s in 2024. She is the author of Preaching with All Ages.