Mum’s been pestering me to update my blog and now that I’ve finished doing all the Christian Union publicity for Freshers’ Week, I’ve now found time to do so. I’ve also been busy with settling in to my new house on Miskin Street. Unfortunately the shower has been leaking into the living room, and is directy above the television and electric sockets, though someone has come round and is currently trying to fix it.
The Christian Union’s Internationals welcome events and Freshers’ Week events have also been keeping me busy, with all sorts of events going on. It’s been fun meeting loads of Freshers – Phoebe, a friend from Contagious arrived last week, and over the last couple of days I’ve met hordes of people including Rachel from Worcester, Lucinda from Ireland, Dave who also went on Contagious, Lizzie who emailed me a few months ago to ask what Cardiff was like, Libby who is the sister of a friend from the Nefyn mission, Britain (not sure if it’s spelt like that!) who is from Hawaii, Danni (again, not sure of spelling) who’s studying English Lit and Italian and many, many others!
It’s all been rather manic, and that’s without mentioning my new responsibilities with editing Quench’s Debate page and planning for the Debating Society and so on. Fortunately things are calming down slightly now!
Anyway, here’s a few items of note I’ve come across on the web lately:
- Some good advice for Freshers from Dave Bish
- Rob Wager, who I met at the UCCF Forum, has started a blog, notesfromtheannexe. Rob is studying English Literature – we had some really good chats about various stuff while at forum, and hopefully we can continue some good conversation here on the blogosphere
- An open letter from Paul Hattaway concerning “The Heavenly Man” on some accusations circulating on the Internet and elsewhere about Brother Yun and the book.
- The talks from Contagious 2006: The Cross are available to download. Excellent teaching – well worth listening to!
And if I get time, I hope to blog about:
- The Cross and Relationships seminar I went to on Contagious. What does cross-shaped romance look like?
- Highlights from the UCCF Forum, such as what struck me from the talks, the people I met and so on. And a few thoughts on the one or two things I disagreed with!
- Continuing my series on The Immaturity of the Evangelical Mind and what to do about it.
- Thoughts on Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernier, which I recently finished reading, and on the film Children of Men, which I watched with Philip and Claire Fayers last week.
- Reflections on starting my third and final year of university – scary!
I’ve got an important blog entry almost ready to publish looking back on my intellectual and spiritual journey since coming to university, so stay tuned for that!