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Meet our new Student Exec 2018-19

Meet this year’s Student Exec! These students will be working to advocate for, build, and continually improve both the student experience and community life at college. To learn more about each of their roles at college, just click here.

View our new prospectus

Many thanks to all the students and faculty members who helped in the creation of our new prospectus. We hope you will share it with those around you, particularly anyone considering theological education. For those who would like to receive print copies, please email m.stratis@trinitycollegebristol.ac.uk.

New book honours John Nolland

Last spring, Bloomsbury T&T Clark published a volume for its Library of New Testament Studies titled The Earliest Perceptions of Jesus in Context in honour of Trinity Tutor in New Testament Rev Prof John Nolland’s contribution to the field of New Testament studies. This collection of essays from top New Testament scholars was edited by […]

Why is peacemaking so hard?

By Rev Dr Helen Collins

During Lent this spring, our faculty preached through the Beatitudes, which also form the basis for Trinity’s Community Values. Below is an adapted version of Tutor in Pastoral and Ministerial Studies Rev Dr Helen Collins‘s sermon on ‘Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God’. You can listen to the audio […]

Listen: Dr Jamie Davies on the Beatitudes

Did you miss the final instalment of our Beatitudes series? Take a few minutes to hear Tutor in New Testament Dr Jamie Davies conclude our faculty sermon series with a sermon that considers the Beatitudes as a whole (21:44). You can also find the recording directly on our SoundCloud account. To hear the entire series, […]

Summer Connect Events

Over the summer and during the start of term, our student spouse group Connect has planned social events so that you can get to know some of the other people here at college. Partners and children are welcome to come along to everything. There will be a couple of people with a sign to show […]

Student team develops all-age college worship and prayer gathering

At the start of the 2017-18 college year, our Student Exec commissioned ordinand Joe Knight to work with a team of students to create a new gathering called ‘The Light Experiment’ for a worship and prayer experience in which everyone in the larger Trinity community could participate. ‘We wanted to come together in a creative […]

Finding Jesus in a hot meal

Bristol’s Wild Goose Café, a Crisis Centre Ministries project led by Trinity student Jonnie Angel, provides unconditional acceptance and practical services to those who’ve become marginalised. Its ministry is also having an impact on Trinity ordinands. At the beginning of 2011, Jonnie Angel was an operations director for a property management solutions corporation with an […]

Meet our leavers: Craig Gaudion

This summer, we’ve sent out 52 ordinands, independent students, and research students, and we look forward to the ways in which God will use their preparation here for his purposes. Below is one of our leavers’ stories. For five years, Craig and Gemma Gaudion were leading a Salvation Army church in Liverpool as lay ministers. […]

Meet our leavers: Laura Faturoti

This summer, we’ve sent out 52 ordinands, independent students, and research students, and we look forward to the ways in which God will use their preparation here for his purposes. Below is one of our leavers’ stories. Laura Faturoti had spent fifteen years working in Chatham, the second most deprived area of Kent, as a […]

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