“Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand.” Job 38:4 “I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.” Apostles’ Creed “So you’re a palaeontologist? What do you think about the millions of years then?” This is often the first question Read more
In the third and final post on the talks from Transforming the Mind 2017 (you can also read the first and second posts), I’ll summarize the talk that Joanna Collicutt gave. She drew on her expertise in both psychology and theology to help us consider how we can be Christ-like in the university, Read more
Following on from the first post a few weeks ago, here’s the second of three posts summarizing the talks from Transforming the Mind 2017. This week we’re looking at Mike Clifford’s talk, which took the experience of Daniel and his friends in Babylon as the starting point. Daniel was a young man who Read more
It is now becoming a tradition that each year I write up the talks from the Transforming the Mind conference so a larger group of people can benefit from them. This year, we had three speakers. Today I’ll tell you about the final talk of the conference, and there will be two Read more
Last week, I discussed the first half of a talk Biblical scholar and philosopher Richard Middleton gave for FiSch a few weeks ago. I will pick up where we left off. This week I’ve included quite a few Biblical references, because his talk linked a lot of concepts and elements Read more
A few weeks ago, Biblical scholar and philosopher Richard Middleton visited FiSch as part of a UK tour. This got me very excited, as I’ve read some of his work and found it very helpful, and Anthony and I managed to go along to a talk in Durham and two in Leeds. Read more
Although there are a few places in the UK where Christian postgraduate groups are thriving (have a look at the list on cpgrad.org.uk to find one near you), there are many cities and universities where there is no such group. This blog is one attempt to provide an online community. In Read more
For Christmas a year ago I was given a book called ‘Wisdom for thinkers: An introduction to Christian philosophy’. It’s not a very thick book – under 200 pages – but fairly dense. So, having just finished it, I thought I’d tell you about it. The book was written as part of a series designed Read more
About two years ago, FiSch launched a research project on ecosystem services. A group of Christian scholars, with backgrounds in philosophy and/or ecology, formed the Faith-in-Scholarship Working Group on Ecosystem Services (FiSWES). After a number of face-to-face meetings, we continued to work on improving the ecosystem services framework with insights from a Christian Read more
This year my autumn term has been a bit different from those of the last six years. At the end of September my postdoc grant ran out, and we moved to Durham, where my husband has started his training to become a vicar and I became a part-time visiting fellow Read more