Itās easy to be gloomy as an aspiring academic. Will I ever finish my thesis? Will I ever get a lectureship? And even if I do, will I end up spending my entire life chasing arbitrary citation statistics and student Read more
I was very pleased with how the RealityBites sixth form conference went down yesterday at Emmanuel College in Gateshead. There were about 150 students from two schools present and for the first time I presented two RealityBites talks. I spoke Read more
“A scientist is a person who knows more and more about less and less,” goes the saying [1], “until he knows everything about nothing.”Ā There were times during my PhD studies when I took heart from the first part of that Read more
What is the mission of the church, and, by implication, of Christian believers? And how does that mission shape our everyday lives? These are the questions that Antony Billington and Mark Greene focus our attention on in the next chapter Read more
Have you ever thought about flies? They can ruin a picnicĀ without trying very hard. Ponder how different religions and philosophies look at these irritating insects. The Egyptians worshipped them as gods. Plato said flies are just prisons for badly-behaved souls. Read more
A guest post from Richard Vytniorgu. āCultureā is a notoriously difficult word. For some it refers to art galleries and piano concerts; for others it refers to something faintly bacterial; while for others still it refers to the entire realm of Read more
This post is the next in our seriesĀ āThe Whole of (Academic) Life for Christā, looking atĀ Andrew Billington and Mark Greeneās thought-provoking collection of Bible studies. The question of purpose is a pressing one in academia. Many who spend their hours Read more
In 1998 Geoff Smith spent 147 days buried in a coffin six feet under a pub garden in Mansfield reclaiming a world record set by his mother, Emma, thirty years earlier. Food, water and human waste were transported through a Read more
This post continues our series ‘The Whole of Life for Christ‘. It follows Antony Billington and Mark Greene’s excellent book with the same name. Read (Galatians 5:13-26). When we become Christians we can have an acute understanding of what it Read more
The Story Glenn Hoddle was born in the suburbs of London in 1957. He became one of the most exciting and gifted footballers ever to play for England. In 1998 he was sacked from his job as the manager of Read more