Ever felt alone in a crowd? It can be difficult if you are not an outgoing sort of person. Gray found himself in fear and loneliness when he started college. Eighteen years old and 200 miles away from home, he was overwhelmed by the prospect of meeting new people in a student environment...

On the first night the roars and laughter from the college bar sounded across to the hall of residence and Gray could not bring himself to go in there and find someone to talk to.

Inner Crisis

“I was going through some inner crises about my identity and outlook on life and had withdrawn into myself,” Gray says. “I had been religious most of my life, although my family were not churchgoers, and I had had my beliefs challenged in several ways in the year I began college.”

Is there a God?

“Some Christian students I met challenged me on whether I had a ‘personal relationship with God’ as they put it and others, with communist attractions, challenged me as to whether there was a god at all.”

Science v. The Bible?

“As a Biology student with a passion for science I was faced with the conflict between evolution and the Bible account of creation. No matter how I tried I could not believe both. I knew I could not selectively believe which parts of the Bible were historically true. If I rejected the beginning of the Bible as history - where did it stop being myth and start being history?”