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When I was sixteen, before I committed my life to Jesus, I used to drink a lot of alcohol. On one occasion after returning from a particularly massive session, where I had consumed fifteen pints of beer, I made a very strange decision.  I returned at 3am without any house keys or a grasp of reality. I looked like a scratchy...

This year, for the first time in my life, I decided to make a New Year’s Resolution. I wanted to do something achievable, so giving up chocolate was out of the question! I wanted to do something that would help me see more of the world Jesus is hoping for. So I decided to invest in a rhythm of saying thank...

"That's the best night out I've had in ages!" quote Polly, in the car on our way back from a night out in Leeds... at church. Yup, you heard, church. Myself and three students from York hopped in my tiny car of dreams  and road-tripped to the neighboring city of Leeds, where I was speaking to the students of St. George's Church about...

Life is constantly moving forward. Even when we think our lives are going nowhere, they are going somewhere. We might feel static or stuck, locked into a job or a location, a relationship or a bed. However, our mind and spirit isn’t still. They continue to throw out thoughts, opinions, longings, trying to make sense of the road we are on....

I was horrified to discover that students in the UK are being given a death sentence. I thought this didn't happen anymore, so to find out that it happens every day was even more terrible. You may be relieved to hear that I am not referring to literal execution. In the gospels we see Jairus approach Jesus and ask him to raise...

I received an email today from a friend studying philosophy at University. She was finding it difficult to marry being a Christian and studying in depth theories and worldviews that were opposed to her own. As a philosophy graduate myself, I can identify with this struggle. At times being a Christian and an academic is deeply difficult. But it’s so important...

Recent graduate and this week's guest blogger Naomi had a realisation today... what are your thoughts on her thoughts?  Maybe God is more human than we thought? Or to put it another way, maybe to be human is to be like God? I’m not trying to take away from God’s divinity or perfection, but it’s just that I realised today that we...