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I asked a group of people including church leaders, post grads, and some of my own uni mates this question… If you could have your time again in uni, what would you do? What advice would you give yourself?  This is what they'd say to their younger selves... Be confident in your faith, not embarrassed by it. You have something amazing to offer...

I remember chatting with a teenager in my church about fasting. He said "Christians don't fast, that's for other religions." Maybe that's your view? Fasting is often seen as pious and irrelevant to our gospel of grace. At worst legalism and a distraction to the mission. Lent starts this Wednesday 10th with TheFastUK initiative encouraging us to fast. My question is "Can a new generation...

Hi, I’m Grace, and I’m a mermaid. … Okay, I’m clearly not, but recently a member of my church had a picture of me as a mermaid, able to communicate with people of the land and the sea. As a Modern Languages graduate, this picture was significant, because it was God showing me the wealth of people that I had the...

Have you ever tried "triple listening"? It was a first for me the other week. I was in Lyon with the Fusion team hosting church leaders and student workers in France. It was wonderful to have 27 leaders from 16 churches (Roman Catholic and Protestant) representing 8 cities meet for the first time with the agenda to develop student mission in France. The...

Men tend to like looking at people’s private parts. Women tend to like looking at people’s private lives. In fact lots of us find both quite interesting! And both are types of porn. A gawping at what we shouldn’t really have our eyes on. A voyeurism of one kind or another. But social porn is not talked about much so here...

'Have you any spare room and a sense of adventure?...' That is how I began my text message to a friend who lives in Galway when organising somewhere to stay on the Fusion/ 24-7 Prayer Ireland road trip.  Over 3 days we plan on visiting (almost) every university location in Ireland to stop off, hear stories of what students and student workers are...

What are you going to do in the next 3 minutes? Scroll down Facebook, post a avocado smoothie shot on Instagram or save the world?! (Well, maybe not quite save the world but you'll get close!) We need your help.  This year you used Student Linkup to find a church at uni and we need to hear how you found it! We want to...