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Those Baffling Christian Societies

What are they? What do they do? What sort of toastie filling do they resemble? Christis provides the answers!

With a view to making those Freshers’ Fair options (Christian-wise, at any rate) that much clearer, we at Christis have hounded and harassed members of each Christian Society to tell us about their organisation. The questions we posed were as follows:

What does your society hope to achieve?
Why should freshers join you?
When and where do you meet?
If your society was a TV programme, which TV programme would it be, and why?
If your society was a toastie filling, which toastie filling would it be, and why?
If your society was a book, which book would it be, and why? (The answer “The Bible” strictly forbidden!)
If your society was a pop song, which pop song would it be, and why?
If your society was a hymn, which hymn would it be, and why?
What is your society’s favourite pub?
What is your society’s favourite fish?

Christis

1. What do you hope to achieve?: Interesting debate about Christianity, from people of all shapes, sizes and viewpoints. (And an Issue without any typos!)
2. Why should freshers join?: We need them to! (Oh stop pleading — Ed). They too can be part of the Funksome Christis Executive, a position held in high regard by at least three people on campus.
3. Where and when do you meet?: We meet on Wednesdays at 2:15pm in Wentworth room W/202.
4. TV Programme?: Terrorhawks — that one that used to have these robot spheres fighting those robot cubes, and at the end they’d have a big noughts and crosses game where the cubes would always cheat by rolling the little balls off before they got three in a row. (Huh? — Ed)
5. Toastie filling?: Curry powder and Worcester Sauce — ’Cos we blow your mind!
6. Book?: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Our motto? Don’t Panic!
7. Pop song?: Hold my Hand (very tightly ,very tightly) B-side of a Your Sinclair cover tape. Must be heard to be believed.
8. Hymn?: When I survey the Wondrous Cross. Corkin’ tune. Corkin’ lyrics. A testimony to the fact that there was life in Christian music before Matt Redman.
9. Fave pub?: The Dog and Duck daaaarn the ’igh street. (Best delivered in Essex accent and featured on a Bacardi advert.)
10. Fave fish?: The Grey Mullet.

Christian Union

1. What do you hope to achieve?: To equip and give opportunity for Christians to bring the reality of the saving grace of Christ into the lives of everybody on campus and beyond.
2. Why should freshers join?: So we can succeed in (1)
3. Where and when do you meet?: On Saturdays at 7pm in V/045 and again for a prayer meeting on Wednesdays at 7:30pm in D/056.
4. TV Programme?: Chalke Talk. We love Steve Chalke.
5. Toastie filling?: Cheese, Mars, Honey, Onion, Mushroom, Jam, Banana, crisps, etc … We have such a large variety of tastes within the society.
6. Book?: Mills & Boon. Not a clue why. Probably the tacky picture, or something.
7. Pop song?: Relight My Fire. Come back Take That.
8. Hymn?: O for a Thousand Tongues, cos (1) would be easier to complete with that many …
9. Fave pub?: Rose and Crown. (Lawrence St). Lots of character, lots of beer festivals.
10. Fave fish?: Tuna.

Cassoc

1. What do you hope to achieve?: We aim to provide a religious, intellectual and social community for people to learn more about the Catholic faith and to learn to drink at least twenty pints a week.
2. Why should freshers join?: They should give us their money so that we can go bar-crawling in Dublin, have parties and get great speakers (Delia Smith if we’re really lucky!). Oh and we’ll let them come too if they want.
3. Where and when do you meet?: On Tuesday’s at 7.30pm in More House we have a speaker, this term the theme is Catholics in modern Britain. On Saturdays at 7.30pm in More House we have a video evening. On Sunday afternoons we have a bible/faith study at 2.30pm followed by afternoon tea and the Sunday papers in More House.
4. TV Programme?: Crackerjack because we could crush a grape.
5. Toastie filling?: Mars Bar!!!!!
6. Book?: Utopia by St. Thomas More (Who else?)
7. Pop song?: Heaven for Everyone by Queen.
8. Hymn?: Bind Us Together.
9. Fave pub?: The Northern Wall, because it’s got a Carmelite sign.
10. Fave fish?: Battered.

Meth-Ang

1. What do you hope to achieve?: Our society hopes for a deeper experience of God and close friendships with each other, developed through discussion, worship, social events, weekends away, social action and the active living out of our faith.
2. Why should freshers join?: Freshers should come to M-A to experience End of Term Meals, encounter punting and meet Craig Myers and see how incredibly red he can go! Seeing is believing!
3. Where and when do you meet?: Monday evenings at 7:30pm in Langwith 037. See Christians on Campus!
4. TV Programme?: If we were a TV programme we’d be Father Ted because we’re religiously based but some really strange things occur.
5. Toastie filling?: If we were a toastie filling we’d be Philadelphia — because it’s slightly out of the ordinary and should be tried and also, predictably — “lovely”
6. Book?: If we were a book we’d be Christis (we know it’s not a book but we also know which side our breads buttered on!!)
7. Pop song?: If we were a pop song we’d be depressed because pop is dead. Long live rock ‘n’ roll!
8. Hymn?: Living under the Shadow of His Wing.
9. Fave pub?: Any really, especially the cheap ones!
10. Fave fish?: The halibut.

Christians in Sport

1. What do you hope to achieve?: We hope to witness to our team mates and have a laugh doing what we enjoy most: SPORT!
2. Why should freshers join?: Because we organise lots of stuff … including 5 a-side campus league, badminton, swimming (etc. to fade). You have to join this society …cos it’s a status symbol!
3. Where and when do you meet?: Monday G/045 at 1:15pm
4. TV Programme?: Gladiators. ’Cos that’s what we all look like!
5. Toastie Filling?: Mars Bar — because we like to work rest and play. (Well rest and play anyway!)
6. Book?: Famous Five on an Adventure (It’s the last book that the president read!)
7. Pop Song?: Just another Manic Monday (See question 3!)
8. Hymn?: And did those feet in ancient times … (play upon Wembley’s hallowed ground?)
9. Fave pub?: The Sport’s Centre bar. Happening place.
10. Fave fish?: The Pufferfish (Groan — Ed.) ’Cos it’s very cunning!

Last modified: 25th November 2005