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Exam season is looming - many students, whether first years or finalists, are starting to hollow out their hibernating spot amongst the clothes, laptops, books and pot noodle debris from which they’ll not emerge until exam season ends.  This can be a frustrating time. As a student worker you’ve built great relationships and seen great stuff happen and now comes the...

What gifts has God given you, given to your church, right now, to bless it, grow it in unity and maturity and knowledge of Jesus?  More specifically, who are those gifts?  Once you have them, how do you encourage a prophet to go for it? How do we spot evangelists if they prefer to be outside church meetings?  Should students teach...

Fairtrade is brilliant. It gives me loads of satisfaction to be able to buy a product from a shop and know that the money I've spent is going to the right places. Through Fairtrade certification, workers who have been part of production are paid fairly for the work they've done and the money is distributed to benefit local communities as a...

“What do you want to do with your life?” This dreaded question is causing a lot of sleepless nights for my student and recent grad friends. So many of us don’t know what happens after the degree and irritatingly, the answers don’t come in neon signs even if we know Jesus. I try to help but after all my questions of “what...

Last week a university friend asked me, two years on, how I found those precious university years because, he said, ‘you sort of did your own thing’. Accurately put. You could even say that I followed my own grade based obsession. I wonder if you can relate to my experience. With increasing numbers of people getting degrees, less graduate-level jobs about...

From my bedroom window, I can see the building site for a house. Aside from some awkward moments involving me, some bad dancing, open curtains and builders, it’s been fun watching the progress from foundations and scaffolding to a roof and the anticipation of windows. Often when we think of the story of a house, it begins when people live in...

I just spoke to over one thousand two hundred women and I told them about you. I thought I better let you all know what I said on our behalf, on behalf of our generation of teens, students and twenty-somethings, since I'm not going to talk behind your back about you! On Saturday March 1st, I got to do the final talk...