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Rector of Ipswich Parish

The Rev'd Selina McMahon

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The Rev’d Selina McMahon is the Rector of Ipswich Parish and worships at St Paul’s Church, Ipswich. She has a Bachelor of Science from University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and an MSc. in Science and Theology from the University of Edinburgh, with a special interest in the interplay between the church and science through history.

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Features

Articles by The Rev'd Selina

The Christmas card

Blending fascinating facts with famous fiction, The Rev’d Selina McMahon from Resource Church St Paul’s, Ipswich tells us about the history and origins of the first Christmas card

Hildegard of Bingen

“Hildegard of Bingen is a rare example of someone who touched nearly every field of human endeavour, leaving her mark on all aspects of life. Like Hildegard, we need to take a broader view of the whole of creation – view it and marvel in it,” says scientist and priest, The Rev’d Selina McMahon on Hildegard of Bingen who is commemorated in our lectionary on 17 September

Statue of St Wenceslas, Prague (Image by Bronisław Dróżka on Pixabay)

The man who would be king

The Rev’d Selina McMahon introduces us to the man behind the Boxing Day carol ‘Good King Wenceslas’, the Patron Saint of Czechoslovakia

A serendipitous Santa story

Find out how a marketing mistake led to a child calling a military crisis hotline and the advent of the enormously popular ‘NORAD Tracks Santa’ website

Holy Com-moon-ion

“Other than Neil Armstrong who watched respectfully, no-one else knew that the first meal taken on the Moon was Holy Communion,” says The Rev’d Selina McMahon on the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’s 20 July 1969 Moon landing