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Faith-in-Scholarship

Artificial thinking?

The revolution being brought about by generative artificial intelligence (“genAI”) is a profound one. The advent of writing tools like ChatGPT is having far-reaching impacts in many areas of the economy and our societies. Workers can now generate the text Read more

By Richard Gunton, 1 yearApril 2, 2025 ago
RealityBites

Challenging Dualism: Serving God as an Engineer

Steve Bishop and I are writing a book about Christians who serve God outside the church sphere. We would like to introduce you to the inspiring work of Egbert Schuurman. What does technology have to do with Christianity? In a Read more

By Mark Roques, 1 yearMarch 18, 2025 ago
RealityBites

Mysticism and Pagan Philosophy

Steve Bishop and I are delighted that the journal Foundations has just published our article: THE “CHRISTIAN” MYSTICISM OF MEISTER ECKHART AND TERESA OF ÁVILA To be really frank I am very concerned how so many Christians are plunging into Read more

By Mark Roques, 1 yearFebruary 24, 2025 ago
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The Poignant Story of Jack Clemo, the Deaf and Blind Cornish Poet

The deaf and blind poet Jack Clemo was born in 1916 in the beautiful county of Cornwall. His father, Reginald, was killed at sea in the First World War and he was raised by his mother Eveline who was a Read more

By Mark Roques, 1 yearJanuary 9, 2025 ago
Saints Anne and Mary with the Christ Child, The Master of Liesborn (1480). Image by Jim Forest 2009:, https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimforest/3271968279.
Faith-in-Scholarship

Childlike faith?

As we enter the last few days of Advent, those with good memories may recall that this time last year my four-month-old daughter was starring in our church’s immersive Nativity scene, and I was led to reflect on the enormity Read more

By Mark Hutchinson, 1 yearDecember 18, 2024 ago
RealityBites

The Inspiring Faith of Harriet Tubman (1822-1913)

Last week my wife, Anne and I watched the film Harriet which is based on the true and very inspiring story of Harriet Tubman. Harriet was an illiterate, black woman who escaped from slavery and dedicated her life to rescuing Read more

By Mark Roques, 1 yearNovember 25, 2024 ago
RealityBites

The Inspiring Story of Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn (1500 – 1536) is famous because she was married for three years to Henry the 8th. We all know what happened to her. She didn’t die peacefully in old age. Her husband, Henry, was one of the most Read more

By Mark Roques, 1 yearOctober 28, 2024 ago
AI-generated art of VR-equipped man ignoring beggars
Faith-in-Scholarship

If AI heeded a neighbour…

A guest post by Mark Gilbert In the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37), two upstanding men, pillars of their community, cross the road to avoid a wounded man. In contrast, a hated outsider stops, takes pity on him, Read more

By Faith-in-Scholarship, 2 yearsOctober 14, 2024 ago
RealityBites

The Crazy Adventures of a Scottish Missionary in a Cannibal Land

James Chalmers was born in Scotland in 1841. He loved adventure, messing about in boats and on several occasions rescued friends from drowning. He loved danger and a good punch-up was always welcome on a Saturday night. He attended Sunday Read more

By Mark Roques, 2 yearsSeptember 28, 2024 ago
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Faith-in-Scholarship

A degree of critical thinking

What are universities for?  There may be more answers to this question than there are academics in a typical philosophy department. And surely we do need different answers according to who asks the question.  The challenge to justify the existence Read more

By Richard Gunton, 2 yearsSeptember 2, 2024 ago

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  1. t_bowman on Serving God as a Soldier in AfricaApril 4, 2026

    Thanks for this sobering story, Mark. It's so important to hold Darwin to account for his appalling racism and the…

  2. t_bowman on The Adventures of a Cornish Christian SlaveApril 4, 2026

    The words 'we don't know we're born' spring to mind. Interesting to read about the bloodthirsty sultan on wikipedia, where…

  3. t_bowman on The Adventures of a Cornish Christian SlaveApril 4, 2026

    The words 'we don't know we're born' spring to mind. Interesting to read about the bloodthirsty sultan on wikipedia, where…

  4. Mark Roques on Review: Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation MovementMarch 3, 2026

    Excellent blog Alicia. I really enjoyed reading this.

  5. Richard Gunton on Can Language Remain Human in the Age of Large Language Models?March 2, 2026

    Paulo has sent this as a follow-up to his post: "From a Reformational perspective, particularly that of Herman Dooyeweerd, language…

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