Religion is a protected characteristic in UK law (Equality Act 2010) yet remains a direly under-researched and under-provided equality measure in higher education (Wolbring & Nguyen, 2023). Evidence shows that a lack of religious understanding can result in stereotyping and marginalisation (Baratta and Smith, 2018). Many UK universities are yet to address religious inclusion (Watson, 2025) however, and thus the academic environment remains naively secular, and at times hostile to faith. Nonetheless, religious faith can be a rich source of human flourishing (Wormley, 2023; VanderWeele, 2023), providing direct benefits for students as well as to institutions. Through a mixed methods study of 165 survey responses and 50 interviews I explored the experiences of Christian postgraduate students at universities in England through the double lens of difficulties and benefits of a Christian identity on campus. In this paper I will present some of my findings of both sides of this coin. On the one hand, I found evidence of a lack of religious equality and inclusion and of faith concealment and invisibility among Christian postgraduates, which I will demonstrate through the Process of religious fading model. Not only are religions unrecognised as a valid identity within the academic realm, but Christians are in a particular position of fading out rather than emerging whilst a lingering notion of historical dominance may be misleading as to their need of support. On the other hand, the tremendous benefits of faith in student flourishing and belonging serve as an advantage, and are unique to those who have faith in a personal and benevolent God. These benefits seem to directly address issues which are endemic in postgraduate pastoral care - ill mental health and lack of belonging. Difficulties and benefits are both present, and need further attention