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Welcome to Christis. This is where you’re always free to write about anything relating any aspect of Christianity you wish, both on campus and in the rest of the world. It is for you, whether you are from any or none of the Christian societies. We are nobody’s mouthpiece, but one of our purposes is to further unity between the societies through communication, both in these pages and in working together to produce them. There are many ways to contribute. We hope for and encourage articles written voluntarily, as well as Thinker responses and cartoons, and we also commission articles, for instance to fill the regular Comment Corner and Bible Bit slots. We also love to receive poems (yours or another’s), puzzles and cartoons — whether asked or not!
Maybe you don’t feel confident enough, or aren’t sure of what you want to write. You can still contribute — by coming to meetings (Wednesdays, 2:15pm) and bringing along new ideas and helping discuss existing ones. We always need people to contribute, and we’d like to meet you! We’ll be at the freshers’ fair with past and current issues on show and there’ll be a welcome meeting on Wednesday, week 1. Come and meet us, and help us worship through and in these pages.
Welcome to the rest of your life! It’s a fair bet that most of you will never have had as much freedom as you now have. They’ll be no-one nagging you to get up ‘NOW!’, no nagging to have a wash before you go out in a morning. You can now eat when you like, work when you like, do what you like. Also, as much personal freedom you now enjoy, you just as much religious freedom. You will almost certainly have gone to the same church for most of you Christian life. Now is the ideal time for you to try other styles of worship, other denominations. If you end up back where you started, then at least you’ve made the journey, and will know more about your walk with God as a result.
Also, now is a chance to meet with people who are on different walks with God, on different paths even, but nonetheless, your brothers and sisters in Christ. You also have a chance to meet real Catholics, Evangelicals, Anglicans, not some caricature, based on half-informed gossip, misunderstood doctrine and pre-history. You will find that, if you talk to them in a spirit of understanding and respect, they are very forgiving of your lack of knowledge or misunderstandings. It might even broaden your view of your own faith, and will, at very least, know where people are coming from.
I urge you to take this opportunity.
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Last modified: 25th November 2005
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