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The book of Isaiah is really important to me

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'The book of Isaiah is really important to me. I read it during the year that I was Student Union President at Exeter University.

I’d just finished my degree in theology and suddenly found myself in charge of sixty staff. I was super, super busy and the world quite liked to distract me from my faith.

I often didn’t have time to go to church. But people knew that I was a Christian. I felt a lot of pressure publicly and I felt that integrity was a real issue that year. I had to manage 60 staff and I was aware that how I did that would affect how people saw Christianity. It was a very high-pressure job.

I felt that I was messing up and so reading Isaiah was really helpful. In it God called the people of Israel, they messed up and then God said, “For goodness’ sake, I love you and forgive you." It’s 66 chapters of that.

At the time, I felt really bashed. But reading Isaiah gave me perspective. Reading it affirmed to me who I am and what I was doing.'

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