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Richard Gunton

Richard is the Director of Faith-in-Scholarship at Thinking Faith Network. He also teaches statistics at the University of Winchester. His current passions include Reformational philosophy, history of sciences, ordination (the statistical sort), and wildlife gardening. He worships, and occasionally preaches, at St Mary's Church in Portchester. [Views expressed here are his own.]
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Protected: Can AI be human?

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By Richard Gunton, 3 weeksSeptember 4, 2023 ago
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The “no evidence” fallacy

A news story currently being covered here in the UK concerns serious serial abuses by a healthcare worker. One of the questions being addressed in ongoing investigations concerns why managers of the healthcare facility where the tragic events took place didn’t intervene sooner to remove the now-convicted murderer. I have Read more…

By Richard Gunton, 1 monthAugust 22, 2023 ago
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Christian Economics?

Economics is the subject I most wish I had studied earlier than I did. Although my school offered an A-level in the subject, a motivation to understand money and its growth and disappearance only arose very gradually over the following years, as I grappled increasingly with my own finances at Read more…

By Richard Gunton, 2 monthsAugust 1, 2023 ago
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Is this a good school? The perils of far-fetched objectivity

It was at the start of this year that Ruth Perry, the headteacher of a primary school in Reading, took her own life after being informed that the school she led (and attended as a child) would be downgraded by Ofsted from “outstanding” to “inadequate”. This story, tragic on many Read more…

By Richard Gunton, 5 monthsApril 27, 2023 ago
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Artificial intelligence in the image of God?

Image: AI-generated by DALL-E* I had a chat with a robot the other evening. The OpenAI project has released an interface called ChatGPT, so I decided to do some research on artificial intelligence by consulting the authority at my fingertips: an AI dialogue partner. I asked it what progress there Read more…

By Richard Gunton, 6 monthsMarch 29, 2023 ago
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Prof. Tom McLeish

Sad news emerged last week about Tom McLeish, professor of natural philosophy at the University of York and longstanding associate of Thinking Faith Network. Tom passed away on 27 February aged 60, leaving an amazing legacy of scholarship in understanding the physics of soft matter and of proteins in living Read more…

By Richard Gunton, 7 monthsMarch 6, 2023 ago
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Faith-in-Scholarship

Creation’s incredible intelligibility

Understanding is a wonderful thing! I hope you’ve had many light-bulb moments in your past education, and that you continue to have moments of stunning insight in your current work. I don’t have such moments as much as I’d like, and my scientific research has never yielded a significant breakthrough. Read more…

By Richard Gunton, 8 monthsJanuary 24, 2023 ago
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Connections for 2023

At the start of this new year, I’d like to offer you my selection of online initiatives that you could connect with for inspiration and fellowship on your journey of faithful thinking and research. The following resources give me hope and inspiration for Christian academic work, and share in the Read more…

By Richard Gunton, 9 monthsJanuary 3, 2023 ago
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Hope for the future of Christian higher education

This is the title of a conference I have just returned from in Liverpool – and also, I would say, the result. The Hope Ecumenical Network was launched last week with a two-day international meeting that brought together representatives from at least fifteen universities and colleges with Christian identities, and Read more…

By Richard Gunton, 10 monthsNovember 14, 2022 ago
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CS Lewis: a visionary for our time?

Many people know of C.S. Lewis through his Narnia stories. Many Christians also know him as an apologist, whose own journey from atheism to Christianity informed his defence of the faith on radio and in person as well as in numerous writings. Not so many know him as a contributor Read more…

By Richard Gunton, 11 monthsOctober 17, 2022 ago

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  1. Steve on Christian Economics?August 16, 2023

    Hi Richard, I’ve listed some resources in economics here: https://allofliferedeemed.co.uk/economics/ Alan Storkey’s Transforming economics is a good place to start.

  2. Dr Philip Thomas on Adolf goes CampingJuly 20, 2023

    Well done. A very rich and vivid piece of creative writing, Mark. Thank you for sharing it. No doubt Frau…

  3. Hugh Grear on Adolf goes CampingJuly 17, 2023

    Thanks Bruce. I get it now! Mark, you are amazing!

  4. Evan on Adolf goes CampingJuly 10, 2023

    Brilliant imagery and well put, Mark. It's quite a rabbit hole!

  5. Mike Burkett on Adolf goes CampingJuly 10, 2023

    Great article Rocky...loving your eloquence and ninja skills to dismantle hollow worldviews.

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