The Third Degree
Which will you buy? That was the challenge UCCF presented to its supporters earlier this year — well, sort of. 59p will buy you a tin of Tesco Organic Baked Beans, but it’s also the cost of putting a copy of Mark’s Gospel in the hands of a non-Christian student. It’s all linked to ‘FREE’, our project to distribute 400,000 copies of Mark on university campuses across the Britain in the coming academic year.
We’ve got nothing against Tesco’s baked beans, but we think that Mark’s Gospel will do students more good. Our supporters seem to agree.
The Third Degree
Many readers will have seen extensive press coverage, both secular and Christian, of the dispute between the Exeter CU and the University’s Students Guild, of which the CU has been a member for over 50 years.
What began as an objection from a single student to the name ‘Christian Union’, claiming that the CU did not reflect his personal Christian beliefs, rapidly escalated.