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I urge you to follow the Jedi Faith

My name is Don and I’m drinking lager in my local pub. I believe that individual choice is sacred. Follow your heart in everything you do. Be true to yourself and you’ll be alright. Trust in your instincts. You can’t Read more

By Mark Roques, 2 yearsAugust 20, 2024 ago
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Vision and revision: listening to T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot’s poetry can give us not only aesthetic pleasure or academic challenge, but real pathways towards shaping ourselves and our lives.

By Alicia Smith, 2 yearsAugust 19, 2024 ago
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The Inspiring Story of George Muller and the Orphans

George Muller was born in Prussia (now Germany) in 1805. As a young man he was a real tearaway. He was a thief, a liar, a bounder, a cad, a womaniser and a committed playboy who used and abused his Read more

By Mark Roques, 2 yearsJuly 25, 2024 ago
Reforming Economics
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Reforming Economics?

“If it is to be governed essentially by the ground motive of the Christian religion, a scientific practice of economics should not be limited to the field of so-called economic policy. It needs to start with a reformation of the Read more

By Richard Gunton, 2 yearsJuly 3, 2024 ago
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The Inspiring Story of Catherine Booth and the Model Match Factory

Catherine Booth was born in Derbyshire in 1829. When she was a young girl the family moved to the East End of London. She was a committed Christian and by the age of twelve she had read the Bible eight Read more

By Mark Roques, 2 yearsJuly 1, 2024 ago
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Pride and Jealousy, in Academia and Elsewhere

A guest post by Prof. Paulo Ribeiro Pride and jealousy are both complex emotions, but they differ in their motivations and manifestations. Pride typically arises from a sense of satisfaction or fulfillment in one’s own accomplishments. It often involves feelings Read more

By Faith-in-Scholarship, 2 yearsMay 20, 2024 ago
RealityBites

REtoday publishes this article on Windows on Worldviews

I am delighted that REtoday has just published this article about our Worldview film resource. It has 20,000 readers. It cannot be read on the internet so here it is. ‘Nobody Stands Nowhere’ is the title of an excellent two-minute Read more

By Mark Roques, 2 yearsMay 13, 2024 ago
RealityBites

Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reform and how the BBC tells her Story

Elizabeth Gurney was born in Norwich on the 21st May, 1780. She was the daughter of John Gurney, a Quaker and an owner of a woolstapling and spinning factory. Elizabeth’s mother, Catherine Gurney was also a devout Quaker. She was Read more

By Mark Roques, 2 yearsApril 22, 2024 ago
Faith-in-Scholarship

A Reformational perspective on manuscript studies?

This year, I’ve been doing my research at a noted respository of medieval manuscripts – the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. This location has affected my research practice in lots of ways. While I was in Canada last Read more

By Alicia Smith, 2 yearsMarch 26, 2024 ago
RealityBites

Augustine on Psalm 137 and How Platonism Corrupted the Christian Faith

I remember talking to a non-Christian friend several years ago. I tried to talk to her about God and Jesus in the spirit of the Great Commission (Matthew 28) but she spurned me disdainfully and told me that Christianity belonged Read more

By Mark Roques, 2 yearsMarch 18, 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…

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    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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