Each year, in the first week of September, around 1,000 student leaders from across the UK don their wellies, pack up their tents and bring their Bibles, notebooks and enthusiasm to the University and Colleges Christian Fellowship (UCCF) Forum conference at Quinta Hall in Shropshire. The conference aims to equip...
This summer saw several teams of UK based doctors and medical students travelling throughout Europe to help local Christian medical groups with medical camps for local students. I joined a GP, two junior doctors and another medical student to travel to one such event in the former Soviet Union.Christians do...
In York, we've met fortnightly for fellowship, lunch, prayer and discussion - including ethics, psychiatry, assisted dying and homelessness. Clinical students have also met for Bible study. We have enjoyed dinner with our medical school secretaries, Mark and Rachael Pickering. We've been able to serve our student colleagues by providing...
Relativism, pluralism, scepticism, exclusivism … all of these are interesting academic concepts, but surely have no real use when talking to your average student colleague? I beg to differ. How many times have you heard the phrase, 'your faith is so lovely, but it just isn't for me' or 'you...