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Over his goldfish bowl of a wineglass and down his nose he proclaimed, “This earth has been spinning merrily on it’s axis for billions of years so I see no reason why it should suddenly stop!” I have reflected on the gentleman’s comment. It is a fascinating insight into a paradox that challenges all of us. Our default is often to...

Alpha is a practical introduction to the Christian faith, aimed particularly at non-churchgoers and new Christians. Student Alpha has been tailored especially for university students – it’s a seven-week course that contains the same material as the Alpha course, except that it’s been ‘squeezed’ (into seven weeks), ‘squashed’ (into 30-minute talks) and ‘spiced’ (with multimedia ingredients). Over the last 10 years...

If the first time you met me, I vomited on your shoes, I wonder if you’d be inclined to meet me again? If the first time you met me, I made an ill-placed joke about women football players, only to discover you are one, I wonder if you’d give me the time of day? If the first time I met you, I...

Now is the time.   Freshers are arriving in universities across the UK, making their new life, new friendships and new choices as they explore their new home in your town or city.   Now is the time to pray, to seek them out, to contact them, to welcome them and to help them navigate this amazing adventure they are starting out...

If you are obedient to God today, you may never know the impact it will have on tomorrow. Back in the late seventies, a youth group from Manchester came to York to hear David Watson preach. He was the vicar of St Michael le Belfrey church, he had a powerful ministry of renewal in the Holy Spirit and many people were...

Did you know you can set the tone for your freshers experience? Did you know you don’t have to just turn up and play along to the tune of whoever is loudest in your new group of housemates? We are all nervous when we start Uni. That first evening can particularly make you squirm as everyone is trying to judge what to do,...

'Here are your new friends!'  I could have written this morning, in the emails introducing Student Linkups from each UK university to each other.  That might have been awkwardly obvious though.  It’s been a little emotional sending the introduction emails off and seeing the ‘reply all’ responses come back – individuals feeling in the dark for others who they can connect...