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Mafia Hitmen at Emmanuel College

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

By Mark Roques, 10 yearsJuly 7, 2016 ago
Faith-in-Scholarship

Christian life with a PhD: real knowledge?

“A scientist is a person who knows more and more about less and less,” goes the saying [1], “until he knows everything about nothing.” There were times during my PhD studies when I took heart from the first part of that Read more

By Richard Gunton, 10 yearsJuly 4, 2016 ago
Faith-in-Scholarship

Whole-life mission

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

By Eline van Asperen, 10 yearsJune 27, 2016 ago
RealityBites

Flies, bluebottles and Jesus

Have you ever thought about flies? They can ruin a picnic 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

By Mark Roques, 10 yearsJune 23, 2016 ago
Faith-in-Scholarship

Culture, Pluralistic Knowing, and Mutual Understanding

A guest post from Richard Vytniorgu. ‘Culture’ 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

By Faith-in-Scholarship, 10 yearsJune 20, 2016 ago
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Whole-life purpose

This post is the next in our series ‘The Whole of (Academic) Life for Christ’, looking at Andrew Billington and Mark Greene’s thought-provoking collection of Bible studies. The question of purpose is a pressing one in academia. Many who spend their hours Read more

By Mark Hutchinson, 10 yearsJune 13, 2016 ago
RealityBites

Buried Alive for 147 days! His mum, Emma inspired him!

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

By Mark Roques, 10 yearsJune 6, 2016 ago
Faith-in-Scholarship

Whole-life fruitfulness

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

By Thom Atkinson, 10 yearsJune 6, 2016 ago
RealityBites

Glenn Hoddle Story – Karma or Grace?

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

By Mark Roques, 10 yearsMay 24, 2016 ago
Faith-in-Scholarship

Whole-life wisdom

The next instalment of our look at the book ‘The whole of life for Christ’, by Antony Billington and Mark Greene, focuses on wisdom. I don’t know about you, but I am often all too aware of my need for Read more

By Eline van Asperen, 10 yearsMay 16, 2016 ago

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  1. Dr P Thomas on Serving God as a Soldier in AfricaApril 18, 2026

    Thank you for taking the time to write this piece, Mark. You have nicely juxtaposed the lives of General Lothar…

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    Thanks for this sobering story, Mark. It's so important to hold Darwin to account for his appalling racism and the…

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    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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    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.

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