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jackHmm, I really need more religion posts, that tag is not getting used.
On saturday rcv1 and I got lunch at michaelhouse. This is a converted church on trinity street opposite Caius. It's slightly more expensive than other lunches, but very very nice. They took the sensible space-limited and traditional approach of having two or three main courses plus sandwiches each with four salads.
We had potato and mushroom gratin, which was very good. I think I should investigate making something like it.
It was a very nice atmosphere. I'm never sure about converted churches; on the one hand it's a shame to waste the architecture, on the other hand it's easy to seem disrespectful (cf. Jesus kicking the merchants out of the temple). (Though apparently this did have regular contemporary worship. As opposed to what worship?)
On sunday, we were in Saffron Walden, and stopped at the church there. It was big and empty, which is always nice. It's so depressing when most churches need to be locked all the time. And lit a candle to grandma's memory. I wish athiests had a better excuse for gestures like that.
ETA: and in poohsoc, we had tggd that remained amazingly amicable, including up to advising someone on ministry from a gamut of athiestical people :)
On saturday rcv1 and I got lunch at michaelhouse. This is a converted church on trinity street opposite Caius. It's slightly more expensive than other lunches, but very very nice. They took the sensible space-limited and traditional approach of having two or three main courses plus sandwiches each with four salads.
We had potato and mushroom gratin, which was very good. I think I should investigate making something like it.
It was a very nice atmosphere. I'm never sure about converted churches; on the one hand it's a shame to waste the architecture, on the other hand it's easy to seem disrespectful (cf. Jesus kicking the merchants out of the temple). (Though apparently this did have regular contemporary worship. As opposed to what worship?)
On sunday, we were in Saffron Walden, and stopped at the church there. It was big and empty, which is always nice. It's so depressing when most churches need to be locked all the time. And lit a candle to grandma's memory. I wish athiests had a better excuse for gestures like that.
ETA: and in poohsoc, we had tggd that remained amazingly amicable, including up to advising someone on ministry from a gamut of athiestical people :)
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Date: 2005-11-07 02:09 pm (UTC)It does indeed and I think the cafe and worship space is better than the disused space which got used for bookstalls which is what it was when I visited Cambridge the summer before I came. The little side chapel is lovely too.
Contemporary worship -- they sit in a semi-circle in front of the altar and use a very loose form of liturgy and have a discussion instead of a sermon; or at least, that's what happened when I went to it in Easter week. They also have what I think is a more trad Eucharist at 8am on Wednesday mornings in the small Chapel. They also make use of it for discussion after that University sermons.
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Date: 2005-11-07 11:49 pm (UTC)Well, y'see, it had lunch in it then as well. And with catering set up rather too well for it to still be a church. But I ignore these things ;) There was a chapel sortof area further in though (moving away from Trinity Street).
This was, hrm, I don't know. I was about to say around February, but actually it was more like April the year before I think. (read vagueness of dates as further evidence that I shouldn't be trusted to pay enough attention to a building to guess what it is...)
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