Now I really do feel like I am back at college. It’s late at night and I have just put the finishing touches to my first assignment. It’s been weird but also quite difficult to get my head around a topic to write about. The problem being that there was no main title as such.

I have joined SEITE in year 2. To show that I ‘have a good grasp’ of Year 1 topics I have to write an essay on church history and visit 3 other churches and write a reflection on different sorts of worship etc.

The essay task was: read a suggested church history book and write about something in church history that interests you referring to early church, medieval church, the reformation and modern church. That’s no real challenge, until you get to the end of the book and realise that, actually, nothing has grabbed you in church history that you really want to write about!

In the end I decided to look at how the church has moved from being persecuted to consistently abusing and persecuting through the centuries, referring to the crusades, excommunications, treatment of black, women, homosexuals and so on. It’s not a great essay, but I really could not be fagged to struggle with an essay on worship styles, the relationship between church and state as they are all done to death.

Well … now I need feedback on the essay which I fear s poorly written and makes a weak argument. I just counted that it has been 18 years since I had to do this! So – anyone out there like a read who will promise to give good honest critical and brutal feedback?