November/December 2026
This Week

I am Olivia, the Marketing officer for Luther King. If you attended Tuesday worship this week, you will have heard about my plan to make a student magazine publication, celebrating our 160th birthday! The magazine will be available digitally, and I will produce a small press run too 🙂
This is an open call for submissions! I would love if students could submit any of the following, or get in touch with any ideas you might have for something to submit. This list of suggestions is based on the types of submissions students made in the 1890s to "The Students' Mag" (of which I have attached an example copy!):
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"Hometown": a short piece of writing on where you come from, and how that place has helped you develop your faith
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Cartoons, art, and photography
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Poetry, hymns, and song
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Biblical or theological reflections: short essays, could be something you've written for your course which you're particularly proud of!
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Book review
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What is a ___ (preacher, pioneer, woman, disability, anything!)
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A particularly fun one from the magazine is "around the suppertable", where a group of students recorded some sort of theological (or other) discussion they had shared over Supper!
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Student achievements!
Of course, I am open to absolutely anything else you might want to share.
If you're interested, do not hesitate to send me an email!
In addition, I am delighted to invite you all to an event I will be hosting on
3rd December, which is when I hope to launch the mag! There will be an archive exhibition, a memory wall, and a talk about our history and some of the brilliant people that have shaped Luther King as we know it today. I also anticipate that we will unveil the newest architectural mockups for our redevelopment. You can book your place here:
https://buytickets.at/lutherkingtheologicalcollege/2500007
Redevelopment Update
To the whole Luther King community,
We have received planning permission for our whole site redevelopment and this is wonderful news!
Tender companies are now visiting the site to review the scheme of works and we hope they will submit their tenders giving us enough time to select our chosen contrcators in time for Christmas.
If everything stays on schedule the builder should arrive mid-January and phase 1 and 2 of our whole site refurbishment will begin.
We know this will mean lots of disruption, however many months of planning work have gone into making our next steps as a community as practical and supportive as they can be.
We will be ensuring we share regular updates - but please ask questions and offer constrctuve feedback if you have worries, challenges or notice issues - massive priojects like this, while a community carries on working stauying and living, can only be succesful with strong tramwork - and every member of Luther King is part of that team.
We know that the hard work and unsettlement now will ultimately mean that our buildings and grounds will be able to serve our learners and wider church communities for decades to come, and is a gift we can pass on for the future.
THANK YOU for being part of this next stage in the Luther King journey!