I was at a boarding school in England when I was a teenager. My school was Downe House which is named after Charles Darwin’s home in Kent. The school was started in the late nineteenth century in Darwin’s home. When it outgrew these premises it moved to the current location in Berkshire. Although the school [...]

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A few days ago I wrote about starting college in the early eighties. My best experiences at college were conversations about the meaning of life, why we were here and how we could make the world a better place. We studied various political thinkers including Marx and we read George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty Four”, wondering [...]

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I admitted in an earlier post “the round church” that my goals were focused on getting into college, being nice and receiving attention from boys with the hope that that one day I would get married. A further goal, once I got married, was to have kids. I appreciate that many women would consider me [...]

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When I was a new Christian I was selective about which parts of the Bible I would apply to my life. Part of the problem was that I had not read much of the Bible and although I had heard many good sermons, every aspect of life had not been addressed in the short time [...]

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Most people who lived in England when I was a kid considered that they were Christians. Many of us went through the ritual of church and were satisfied that that was enough. Once I had acknowledged that everyone is by nature wretched and mean and not at all ready to go to Heaven, I realized [...]

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I have described how Jesus began to change my life when I started as a student at Homerton College Cambridge in 1980. Responding to Jesus’s invitation to become a child of God has influenced every response that I have made since then. However, when I first became a Christian I was like a very small [...]

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As I had already been to boarding school when I was younger, arriving at Homerton College, Cambridge was exciting but not intimidating. I was eager to join clubs and hear speakers and when I heard that there was a Christian Union meeting, featuring a pastor from one of the local churches, I was happy to [...]

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