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Listening in relationship

The third 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

By Faith-in-Scholarship, 9 yearsSeptember 18, 2017 ago
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Christian postgrad groups in action: Oxford Graduate Christian Forum

One of the aims of Faith in Scholarship over the years has been to support groups for Christian postgraduate students – sometimes actively, sometimes through providing networks and resources. Most of the FiSch bloggers are or have been part of these groups Read more

By Alicia Smith, 9 yearsSeptember 11, 2017 ago
RealityBites

Jehoshaphat, Jihadists and Evil

Last night I delivered my presentation on Mafia and the Problem of Evil to about thirty members of the evening fellowship at St Peter’s in Harrogate. At TFN we are committed to giving Christians an opportunity to think through challenging Read more

By Mark Roques, 9 yearsSeptember 8, 2017 ago
RealityBites

The gospel, the fakir and the bed of nails

An Indian fakir had been living on a bed of spikes for 18 months. Why was he doing this? The desperate man said this: “I worship God in this way but I confess that the pricks of these spikes are Read more

By Mark Roques, 9 yearsSeptember 5, 2017 ago
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Jesus, virtue and the university

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 Read more

By Eline van Asperen, 9 yearsSeptember 4, 2017 ago
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Faith-in-Scholarship

Welcome to the University of Babylon!

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

By Eline van Asperen, 9 yearsAugust 21, 2017 ago
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Faith-in-Scholarship

Listening to God with studious imagination

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

By Faith-in-Scholarship, 9 yearsAugust 18, 2017 ago
RealityBites

How Evangelism can be Fun

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

By Mark Roques, 9 yearsAugust 2, 2017 ago
Faith-in-Scholarship

What is your calling again?

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

By Eline van Asperen, 9 yearsJuly 24, 2017 ago
RealityBites

Teenagers are intrigued by Mafiosi and the gospel!

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

By Mark Roques, 9 yearsJuly 18, 2017 ago

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  1. Dr P Thomas on Two Ladies on the TitanicSeptember 2, 2026

    Hello Mark. Interesting story, though quite depressing if that was all there was to this life! It is sad that…

  2. t_bowman on Two Ladies on the TitanicAugust 30, 2026

    I have a Buddhist friend who finds Schopenhauer bracing and invigorating. Can't see it myself. The World as Will and…

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    Fascinating stuff, Mark, but I'm not sure how much money you'll make [the bottom line, right?]. If you could learn…

  4. hugh.grear on Blasphemy and EvangelismJuly 30, 2026

    Mark, this is really good. It’s simple and concise, and people can adapt the basic stories, putting them into their…

  5. hugh.grear on Serving God and Idols in FootballJune 29, 2026

    Loved this. Such an idolatry can cost you everything! As a husband, as a Father, and probably as a normal…

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