Dec 9th 2016 -
Our nation is broken Our nation is hurting Our nation is deeply divided 2016 has been a tumultuous year. It has surprised and shocked and has revealed woundedness, bitterness, generational division and identity insecurities that fear and dehumanise the other. God has neither been surprised or shocked and is fully committed to his rescue plan. As we enter into this Christmas season and...
Dec 8th 2016 -
Less is more for #EscapeAndPray 2017 as it returns for a third year with only 50 places! If you don't know #EscapeAndPray 2016 involved 100 teams of 2-4 going to cities in Europe for 48 hours to pray for revival on campuses and bless the city. Have a read of some of the stories. Teams had no idea where they were going on arrival to the airport....
Dec 3rd 2016 -
Fast-forward 3 weeks from now… It’s Christmas eve, 11am rolls around and you begin to regain consciousness to the new day. All comfy and warm in your own home bed, it slowly dawns on you… Christmas is tomorrow! All the Christmas build up is nearly over. All those beginning weeks of holidays, all the friends you wanted to see, presents you...
Dec 2nd 2016 -
Cast your mind back to 2005. The year of the Crazy Frog, footballing heroics in Istanbul and this indie banger from Hard-Fi – Living for the Weekend. Pre-teen me may have not understood half the things this song was talking about, but I loved this tune, and I would proudly belt out the chorus of "LIVING FOR THE WEEKEND, LIVING FOR THE...
Nov 29th 2016 -
Then the Lord called, ‘Samuel!’. Samuel answered, ‘Hineni: Here I am’. (1 Samuel 3:4) Around this time last year, on a chilly November day in the main lecture hall of St John’s in Durham, something remarkable was happening. Gathered there, having travelled from scattered locations across the country, were nearly seventy young women, many of them students… and all of them...
Nov 28th 2016 -
"One of our students is a born evangelist. Last year she saw all her housemates start to follow Jesus! Over the summer she'd started feeling called to invest in some new non Christian friendship. During freshers' week her and I were in a club together helping to steward an SU event. A first year girl caught her eye and she...
Nov 18th 2016 -
This is Alfie. Alfie eats Norwegian cheese for breakfast everyday (what a dream!), likes theology and politics, and has a sonic screwdriver toothbrush. Oh, and he’s followed the call of God and moved to Norway to work with Fusion Europe, raising his own salary. Just a small move, then. I had the privilege of chatting to Alfie, so you can meet...
