Our faith still seeks understanding as we learn how to serve together in this space. During much of the twentieth century many evangelical university ministries felt able to focus on the piety of personal evangelism and individual discipleship in the wider context of modernity’s sacred/secular divide.

Elsewhere, in reaction, a variety of faith-and-work, and faith-and-scholarship movements emerged in ways that re-emphasised the goodness of academic work, and the importance of thinking from a Christian perspective. But then it wasn’t always made clear how the latter emphasis was centred intellectually on the same gospel which still provides the historic foundation for our evangelical university ministry.

GNU is committed to a both/and approach: the gospel informs our work, and our work helps us introduce the gospel. Others are also exploring along these lines so we have been a founding partner of The Gospel & Academia Project in which partners pool materials and programmes with those who are committed to the same unified vision and to the non-duplication of limited resources. Where some ministries in Europe are smaller, this allows us to build critical mass and model gospel unity for the encouragement of our students.