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I didn’t think I could be offended very easily. I laugh a lot more than I cry. I don’t take myself seriously (not always helpful) and it takes something pretty major to see me angry. If you think you might have done or said something to me that could have caused offence, I can almost guarantee you that it won’t have...

Announcing:  The Student Linkup North East Tour in association with Urban Saints, Fusion and local churches. Urban Saints and Fusion are teaming up to launch a Student Linkup North East tour in the second week of July!  Churches from across North East England will host preparation for uni events to see local young people ready to hit the ground running as confident men...

The other morning I was chatting with my house mate about punctuality and that how actually this is something that most Christians are generally rubbish at, especially Christian students. It’s something I see every week at church. The service officially starts at 3.30pm, but this is when the first ‘early birds’ just begin to rock up and by about ten to...

I’m stumbling across some of our cities’ best kept secrets. Trouble is, they are secrets that want to be discovered. In many University locations I visit, leaders of churches and student work tell me the same story. There’s always a couple of “big churches that seem to attract the students” and the others end up saying something along the lines of...

On 13th March Fusion will be offering a free Student Linkup workshop to youth workers in London. 73% of Christian young people don't engage with church at university*.  What can we do?  How can we get them ready to go? This workshop will explore how to prepare young people well  for university and help them find new church homes when they arrive. "I...

Many people would rather have a picnic in a Victorian sewer than go to a church prayer meeting. Historically, the church has been phenomenal at turning a dynamic encounter with our omnipotent, relational deity into a snore-fest! This is a travesty because prayer transforms and changes us. It nourishes and sustains us. When we pray, our minds move in line with...

I think you're pretty dangerous. So am I. I think together, we might cause some serious damage. I'm talking about the kind of damage that breaks through the status quo we live in as students. We shine a brilliant light through the attitudes and actions that say "anything goes", "there is no absolute truth" and "being free is living for yourself". We...