Rachael Newham

I’ve been incredibly lax with blogging this term – its’ been a bit manic. We started the term with fun in the (snowy) sun, cancelled lectures and not a lot to do was a fun time to catch up with friends and just enjoy being back in the lovely land of LST. It’s been a […]

Is the name of a conference I am going to in March; I have often wondered whether the Mind is, in fact beautiful. Whether that is because my mind has so often launched attacks on itself, let me down and taken me to some dark and dangerous places. I often find myself speaking of my […]

It has been quite a while since I last blogged – in fact it was last year! I have been challenged again and again recently to actually DO something about the passion I have for mental health awareness and support. Part of me knows they are almost selfish reasons – I do not want what […]

Oscar Wilde said that… I was thinking today that music and my memories are very intertwined. I used to be haunted by the song ‘Nothing Will Ever Be The Same Again’. It was during listening to that song that I realised quite how ill I was, how, for better or worse I had been irrevocably […]

It’s a funny place. It is the place I longed to be during that first week at LST – yet now I am here, I want to return to LST. Strange. I think LST might just have become home in these past 10 weeks -it is the place I feel I belong. I have never […]

Apologies for the lack of entries over the past few weeks, it has been a touch manic! I have handed in my first essay, and the deadline for the second is fast approaching. I am preparing to sing at the open mic night tomorrow evening, attempting to begin revising for the impending exams and as […]

I have very nearly completed my first month of study at LST and I say with no hesitation that time has flown. Time is a funny concept, we spend half our time wishing for time to go quicker and the other half wanting it to slow down so we can savour the moment or avoid […]

Apologies for the belated entry this week, but the realities of being a university student have been hitting home well and truly!Two essays set, countless books to read, lots of colour-coding notes and I am loving it! It’s amazing to be studying for a degree and being able to learn more about God as I […]

Ok, so my first week at LST is over and it has been a little harder than I thought it would be. I think I assumed I would adapt to ‘leaving home’ really easily, but this was not the case and I ended up going home mid week and for the weekend; however, God has […]

Yes, you did read it right, Bible Colleges do have “Freshers” and we also have a Freshers’ Week. Ok, drunkenness will probably not rate highly on the agenda, but meeting people and finding your way around this ‘being a student’ thing probably will. There are three days to go until I officially leave my home, […]