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 Read more
The second part of Bruno Medeiros’ series on Listening as a spiritual scholarly discipline: He taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said: Listen! … Mark 4:2 Give ear and hear my voice; Listen and hear my words. Isaiah Read more
Very encouraged that my article ‘How Evangelism can be Fun‘ is featured on the front of the Baptist Times. To date 15 people have made comments about my article. So delighted that an old friend, Jeffrey Dudiak, Professor of Philosophy, 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 Read more
Thanks to everyone who prayed for me yesterday. I really need this prayer support. RB is a ministry that is committed to reaching out to British teenagers and during this conference there was some serious bespoke evangelism going on. Please Read more
Whatever stage of research we’re at, we can benefit from a masterly overview of how everything fits together. And here at Faith-in-Scholarship we’re sometimes asked what introductions to Christian thinking we can recommend for academics. First, there are some general principles Read more
Bespoke evangelism begins with everyday conversation. This might involve chatting about vegetarian cooking, fish and chips, the royal family, detective dramas, sport, social events, photography, poetry, travel in exotic locations, gangster films and Hollywood stars. We find out what people Read more
‘Calling’ or ‘vocation’ is something we mention fairly often at Faith in Scholarship. In modern English it’s mostly used, in both secular and church contexts, to refer to profession: often to a certain kind of demanding, valued profession, such as medicine or pastoral work. Read more
In 2003 football hard man and actor Vinnie Jones admitted assaulting an airline passenger and drunkenly claiming he could have a flight crew “murdered for £3,000”. Jones became incandescent with rage when a fellow passenger, Stephen Driscoll told him he Read more
In my work as a lecturer over the past year, I’ve had the privilege of working particularly closely with students from a number of different nationalities and cultures. This has been especially exciting for me because it fits into a Read more