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One of my favourite experiences as a student was when my house mates and I decided to cook Christmas dinner together. Each of us was responsible for a different element of the meal. It was a manic cooking experience as we overloaded the oven and prayed that everything would be edible at the end! So much of our student lives are spent...

Is God bothered about essays, exams and seminar prep, or is he just interested in how well we connect with our course mates, so that we can tell them about Jesus? If uni is just about meeting people who we can tell about how God loves them and wants a friendship with them, then let’s all quit the degrees now and...

Community plays a crucial part in discipleship and mission. What does community look like in your student work? Real friendships are key to us becoming who we are created to be. It’s where “iron sharpens iron” and our church communities need to be producing authentic friendships. It is also how those who don’t know Jesus start to recognise him. “By this everyone...

I’ve been thinking about how the majority of us in the West live in the most affluent time and have some of the most decadent lifestyles in history, I’ve wondered how this has become ‘normal’ and something often subconsciously we feel entitled to. I have also thought that for the most part, most of us have made no contribution to...

Gestalt psychology engaged with the phenomenon of the whole as a single entity, made up of constituent parts. A particular phrase often misquoted suggests the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, it was in fact considered different from the sum of its parts. Our worldly inheritance is a formative constituent of who we are, but it does not rend...

“You have to get this guy to pray for you.” I glanced at my phone screen as it buzzed in my pocket, displaying the text my friend Freya had been quick to challenge me with.  We were sat listening to a talk by a guy in his sixties called Gary who has a huge heart for our generation. He spoke with...

This generation is growing up with the reality that virtually any information we desire is only a few clicks away. Bombarded with advertising and constantly made aware of the latest happenings from across the globe, we are the most informed generation ever, but is all this information doing us any good? It is good to pray for those we see suffering...