Blog: Students

Isn’t there something incredible about just lifting our eyes and looking to the sky? A canvas of colour, an ever-changing mystery that transforms regularly from the mundane to the breathtaking.  We don’t do it often enough.  It puts things into perspective, reminds me that there is more to this life than the me-centered world that I live in. In fact, it reminds me...

Every now and then, a song captures the essence of a generation. Whether it is music from Guthrie, Dylan, The Sex Pistols, The Smiths or Oasis - every age has had it's soundtrack. Whilst listening to John Mayer's song "Waiting on the world to change" this morning, it occurred to me how accurately it describes the half-apathy I see in...

Sometimes, when I find a verse in the Bible, even though I know I've read it on many occasions before, I feel like I've just encountered it for the first time. I had that experience this week, as I was reading 1 Corinthians. "I urge you then to imitate me" says Paul, in chapter 4 verse 6. What a statement! It...

I knocked my two front teeth out when I was ten. It’s quite a talent to be able to fall over the handlebars whilst cycling up a hill. They were plucked off the concrete, plopped into a cup of milk – and off to the hospital we went. My last fifteen years have seen lisp-inducing block-braces, sparkly train-tracks, headgear (yup – that attractive...

I, Eve Ridgeway, student worker, have been a Christian for nearly six years now – I have become fluent in ‘Christianese’.  I grew up in high traditional churches, so am familiar with the candles, and the idol that can be choral music, and while familiarity is good, I don’t want it to become complacency.  This has particularly hit me recently, as, praise...

I’m not a gambling girl. However, my Grandpa used to take my brother and I to the penny arcades. We’d be given the grand sum of £1 and set loose to run wild with the 1p and 2p machines (we were big spenders). At the end, my brother would end up with a pocketful of pennies, and I’d end up with...

I’ve spent the last few months working on a new resource for Fusion. It’s called University: The Big Challenge. Since a lot of people will be thinking about starting uni in a few month's time, I thought I’d give you a taster of what to expect with this excerpt... Say hello to the new you Going away to university provides a great...