Academics and those who work in higher education

University vice-chancellors, proctors, professors, tutors, lecturers, readers, researchers, bursars and porters; staff of the Open University; principals and teachers of specialist colleges for music, drama and dance; catechists; staff of theological colleges and Bible study courses; members of regulatory bodies; members of examining boards. Staff of research organisations; student welfare officers and providers of support services to students.

All knowing God, You call us to love You with heart, soul and all of our minds; our search for knowledge takes us deeper into a universe that You have made; so we thank you for those who stretch and extend human intellect, for in so doing they increase our capacity to know and worship You. May our institutions of learning be communities of harmony where knowledge is not perceived as a possession, but celebrated as a gift from You. And so may each use their knowledge; great or small; broad or intensely specialist for the greater good of all people and the purposes of Your Kingdom. Through Jesus Christ who is Lord of all the earth and everything within it. AMEN