A large percentage of PhD students don’t follow a career in academia … will it all turn out to have been a waste of time? This is something of a ‘farewell’ post from me, as I’m stepping down from the Read more
You should not keep any animal except a cat… Anyone who wishes may sleep in leggings… They should not snack between meals. These are a few of the more specific instructions given in the medieval treatise for religious recluses now Read more
Giovanni Brusca is known as ‘the Pig’ or ‘il Porco’ for his slovenly appearance and huge craving for Italian posh nosh – Lasagne, Barolo and olive oil. He once admitted to killing at least a hundred people and to top it all, Read more
Last week, I summarised the first part of the first talk Andrew Fellows gave at the Transforming the Mind Christian Postgraduate Conference in June. We saw that our calling as Christian scholars is rooted in the creation mandate and the mission mandate. Read more
From 17-19 June, this year’s Transforming the Mind Christian Postgraduate Conference took place in the usual, beautiful location of Ilam, Derbyshire. One of the main speakers was Andrew Fellows, the Director of Christian Heritage in Cambridge, who also spent many years working for L’Abri UK in Hampshire. Read more
Simeon Stylites was a laugh a minute. He lived 37 years on a sixty foot pillar 1400 years ago! He wanted to be spiritual and get closer to God! Unfortunately the hermit had misunderstood the message of the Bible! He Read more
Right now postgrads are working particularly hard. In the UK, masters students have about a month left to submit dissertations, and many PhD students will be working to submit 2nd-year reports, trying to complete before funding runs out, or facing Read more
Pete Gillions told me this delightful story about Dr Nott meeting the Queeen. For more than two decades, Dr Nott – a consultant surgeon at three major hospitals in London and a Christian – has given up several months every Read more
I grew up in a Protestant church on the Continent, where we sang from the Genevan psalter (in a translation). The psalms cover a wide range of human emotions and situations, from the deepest depths to the highest heights. Of Read more
It’s 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