Jan 7th 2014 -
As the Christmas break draws to a close here are ten questions for students before heading back into the fray! The first term was a foundations term. First years find their feet, middle years settle into a routine, final years look towards exams and the next step. Wherever you’re at, your last term would have been a turning point. Its the same...
Dec 12th 2013 -
Keep your trees, stockings, fat bearded men and turkeys... parties are the way forward my friends, and also one of the most appropriate responses to Christmas we can have. I went to a Great Gatsby themed Christmas party thrown by the students in a local church in Bath last week, to end the term in style for their community and their...
Dec 3rd 2013 -
When I tell people I have a list of challenging personal questions about my faith and lifestyle that a friend asks me regularly, the responses vary from ‘that’s cult-y’ to ‘what a good idea’. Honestly, I’ve swung back and forth in my opinion of discipleship questions over the years. Last Monday morning, though, as I read Matthew 23, it reminded me...
Nov 19th 2013 -
Leadership is a popular buzzword in the current Western Evangelical Christian community. Its all about leadership and, encouragingly, increasingly about young leadership. In churches throughout the UK students are pioneering, preaching and sitting on church leadership teams. Elsewhere, churches are even scheming to church plant with students! This is an exciting season. When we talk of ‘leadership’ though, its most often...
Nov 6th 2013 -
In the last few weeks I have heard a report which has left me shocked and appalled. I have the privilege of supporting, encouraging and connecting student workers across the UK.* In face to face meetings and over the phone we share the joys and sorrows of this pioneering and potent ministry. Within the last few weeks, a student worker has shared...
Oct 30th 2013 -
Dear son, dear daughter, I wanted to drop you a line because we haven’t had that much time to talk recently. I know you’re so so busy with the final year of your degree, and I know it counts so you’re making it count, as the book pile mounts around your head. And you sit at that desk all day in the library and...
Oct 25th 2013 -
I wish I’d known how to budget my student loan in my first year… If only I’d signed up for Volley Ball instead of watching daytime TV…I wish I’d made a decision to live with the friends I’d made in Halls so I could have stayed committed to those friendships … If only I was prepared for what to do...
