Is it possible to be an agnostic? Many would say yes! I say – no! The idea of being an agnostic goes completely against the idea of ‘worldview’. Worldviews are not intellectual ideas. Worldviews are the ‘Big Stories’ that can mug Read more
Thinking Faith Network is the parent of Faith-in-Scholarship. The organisation that runs FiSch is a 30-year-old UK-based charity committed to helping people explore how imaginative Christian thinking can transform and enrich every area of life. For a multimedia introduction, the promotional video Read more
Following on from last week’s introductory post, we begin our look at Mark Greene and Antony Billington’s brilliant little book with the idea of a ‘whole-life gospel’ – the subject of their first study. The starting-point here is Colossians 1:15–23, which Read more
Suppose for a moment that Jesus really is interested in every aspect of your life. So begins an excellent little book of Bible studies by Antony Billington and Mark Greene, entitled ‘The Whole of Life for Christ’. And so begins Read more
Follow me Sobek, the crocodile god. I am a fertility god and far more powerful than Heqet, the ugly frog god. I am virile beyond belief… Follow me Baal! I am a Canaanite fertility god and I promise to bless Read more
A guest post from Mark Surey. Providence, like fortune, favours the prepared mind. Although my C-A-N- role is primarily to offer pastoral and professional support to Christian academics, being a compulsive evangelist I am always praying for opportunities to present my faith Read more
Our series “What is good scholarship?” has examined nine aspects* of God’s created order in which we can discern norms – different kinds of “goods”. We believe these norms are recognised to varying degrees by everyone, thanks to God’s grace. Read more
In this post I want to show how faith lies at the heart of scholarship – perhaps in some ways that we hadn’t thought of before. I also want to explain why faith comes as the final virtue in our Read more
Theme In his famous sermon on the mount, Jesus calls his disciples to live in a radically new way. He challenges all his followers to love their enemies. This can be very difficult for sinful human beings who are prone Read more
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. … Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 1 Read more