Join us next week
Next week, St Augustine’s students, staff and tutors are set to start our Spiritual Practices Challenge 2026 – and we’d love you to join us.
It’s three weeks of three gentle spiritual practices and a little space each week to slow down and reconnect with God.
Whether you’re thinking about theological study or simply wanting to explore your faith, this is a no-pressure way to begin.
How does the challenge work?
Starting Monday 9 February and running for three weeks, we’ll suggest a new spiritual practice each week. Every challenge aims to help you:
- Slow down
- Pay attention
- Notice how God might be at work in your life.
We’ll reveal the first challenge on Monday 9 February.
Created by our Principal, Alan Gregory
The Spiritual Practices Challenge was created last year by our Principal, Alan Gregory, along with the reflections that accompany them.
We received such encouraging feedback from participants, so we’re keeping the same three challenges for 2026. If you joined last year and enjoyed it, we warmly encourage you to return to the practices again.
Watch Alan’s introduction
Watch Alan in our short introduction video, where he explains how spiritual practices form part of our Spirituality and Discipleship taster term, starting in March 2026.
Grow your faith
As you try each practice, Alan encourages you to ask questions like:
- What is the aim of this practice?
- What am I noticing as I try it?
- How could the practice create change in my life?
- How might it draw me closer to God?
He also suggests recording your progress:
“As you go along with these practices, make notes. Spend time thinking about it, jot down your ideas, your feelings, what comes to you and what fires your imagination.”
Share your progress (if you’d like to)
If you’d like to share how you’re finding the practices, we’d love to see it, and it’s a wonderful way to encourage others, too.
Post on Facebook or Instagram using #StAugSpiritualPractice.
Ready to begin?
Check our blog and socials channels for weekly challenges, and let’s make this a February of courage and transformation!
We’ll see you on Monday 9 February.
