Sustainability as Flourishing
A guest post by Victor Morales. Sustainable development has become the main issue at the dawn of thi…
Flourishing trees
About six weeks ago, I had the privilege of chairing one of the series of ‘Feeding the Earth’ webina…
Feeding the Earth – talks online!
Does Christian faith make a difference to food and eating? Anyone who reads the Bible will know that…
When ethical systems collide
News reports in the UK these last few days have commented on the resignation of Lord Geidt, the Prim…
Learning by example?
This year I have been thinking often about exemplars – figures in history, or fiction, seen as…
The Foundation of Christian Scholars(hip)
We now come to the conclusion of our series on Herman Dooyeweerd’s In the Twilight of Western T…
Feeding the Earth
This Friday sees the launch of a series of lunchtime webinars about a topic that affects all of us: …
Faith, Theology, and Philosophy – For All!
So far in our journey through Herman Dooyeweerd’s book In the Twilight of Western Thought, we …
Assessment, ranking and identity
As we enter May and begin to feel summer approach, academics around the UK are gearing up for a seas…
Swallowed up by life
Easter is mysterious. This isn’t a conclusion many come to in our culture today: from a secula…
What is your experience?
Walking into a classroom at one of the top universities in the world after 12 years out of education…
What’s Going On Here?
We’re continuing our discussion of Herman Dooyeweerd’s little book, In the Twilight of Western …
What’s Your Story?
One of the fruitful ideas I keep returning to in my life and scholarship is how stories or narrative…
Christian sustainability?
Sustainability is the watchword of our time. I wonder if it is the most widely shared ethic in today…
Herman Dooyeweerd, I Love You!
This is the second installment of my series of reflections on Herman Dooyeweerd’s little book, …
The many-sided wisdom of God
The KLC Junior Scholars’ Reading Group looking at Herman Dooyeweerd’s book In the Twilig…
Death to 2021?
As we tiptoe tentatively through the first weeks of 2022, wondering what lies ahead for us this year…
The Myth of Neutrality
When I was a young child visiting my grandparents, they often had a detective show on the TV. I can …
The life of Covid
I’m recovering from a Covid infection as I write. It’s been a mild one, like a dry flu, …
Fighting fire with fire: Politics and the Bible
If we want to bring the Bible into political life, we cannot do so too directly. Or so we are told. …
The Place of Academic Life
This week I will be giving my final lecture in a first-year university course that I’ve been teachin…
Researching medieval miracles
‘Do miracles really happen? Is there a God or gods who actively intervene in human history?’ Lydia M…
How Money Makes You Sad
At my university this semester, I’ve been thinking a lot about money. I think I’ve always thought ab…
Walking in freedom
“I will always obey your law, for ever and ever. I will walk about in freedom, for I have soug…
The Virus and the Soul
The word “Covid” surely evokes a mental reaction now from people everywhere in the world…
Every Breath the University Takes, continued…
Last week I started this reflection on the state of the university today by looking at the recent fi…
Every Breath the University Takes
As a seminarian in a former life, I was cautioned against being “a quivering mass of availability” (…
Faith in Democracy
We commonly grant nowadays that most of us live in societies that are pluralistic and largely secula…
Covid, language, information
We’re continuing our series of posts considering the Covid-19 pandemic from the perspective of the v…
Is Covid history?
A virus in itself, even Covid-19, doesn’t know what effects it can have in our world. It’s simply pa…
Why do a PhD? Because God has a plan…
As a part of the ‘Why do a PhD?’ series of blogs posts, I thought I’d contribute my own thoughts on …
Abraham Kuyper’s view of the natural sciences
Steve Bishop writes about his recently-published paper on Kuyper. Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) was a D…
Christian Scholarship and Power
As the newest member of the Faith in Scholarship team, I’ve been asked to introduce myself as my col…
A Reformational theory of objectivity?
Can Christian thinking enhance academic work? It’s our conviction, at Faith-in-Scholarsh…
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