Editorial
Welcome to the first issue of 2006. I hope you had a good Christmas and New Year, though all that seems like a long time ago now. Although I enjoyed Christmas, it was a strange kind of relief to get back to York and the mad rush that is term time.
This lull between Christmas and Easter, where we are lucky if we see the sun at all, can get very depressing, and when exams start to loom… I hope this issue of Christis will provide some colour and warmth.
When it’s cold, and there’s work to be done, and the only comfort comes from the fact that it’s only five months ‘til summer, it’s important to remember that God is always there. There is no problem too small to trouble Him with.
We should also remember those people we can be there for, whether that’s our family, housemates and friends, people we know through church, or those who have nowhere warm to sleep at night or nowhere else to turn.
This issue we have a very instructive article from Helen Bourne on worship songs, and Sophie Cartwright considers spiritual authority. Oliver Ward has written us a comedy play, and Peter Davis looks back at the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.
I hope these inspire you. Keep the submissions coming! Whether serious or silly, scriptural or sacrilegious, we welcome them all!