Arrival at Oxford

I had a good flight from Logan on a Boeing 777. I had more leg room than I am used to having in "coach" and with the help of the new noise-canceling headphones was actually able to sleep for more than half of the six hour flight--that's a first. The plane touched down around 6:30 a.m. (Oxford is five hours ahead of Boston) in excellent weather and I made it through customs without a hitch. I walked underground to the central bus station where I caught my 8:30 a.m. bus to Oxford. As we entered the city of Oxford, we passed a Starbucks (!) certainly a good omen for this conference. Thankfully, there are no Dunkin Donuts cluttering the street corners here.

I arrived around 10:00 a.m. but had to kill time because the rooms weren't ready until noon. I am staying in Keble College located a little north of the city centre. I have a couple of pictures of Keble: one of the chapel and the other of one of the interior quads. I have a single room with my own bathroom and ethernet service (no WiFi).















Dinner is at 6:00 p.m. this evening and the conference begins at 7:30 p.m. with worship at University Church of St. Mary The Virgin. The preacher is Derick Bingham, teaching Pastor, Christchurch, Belfast, and Fellow, the Royal Society for Arts; his sermon title is, "Of Children and the Stars: Is humankind Greater than Matter?"

St. Mary's, by the way, is the site where Cramner, Latimer and Ridley were tried and condemned for heresy by Queen Mary (Bloody Mary) a devout Roman Catholic. C. S. Lewis preached his sermon "The Weight of Glory" here on June 8, 1941.