When Questions Question You
Dear Toby/i, I’ve been thinking about the off-hand comment you made in our seminar last week – when …
Prof. Tom McLeish
Sad news emerged last week about Tom McLeish, professor of natural philosophy at the University of Y…
Biblical Critical Theory? Digging into new resources with Good News for the University
I'm kicking off a new series today which we hope will both alert you to another initiative in the fi…
Scholarship as Christian Courage
Dear Martin/e, This academic year, I’ve been reflecting with you on the topic of questions when it c…
Creation’s incredible intelligibility
Understanding is a wonderful thing! I hope you’ve had many light-bulb moments in your past edu…
The Questions Within You
Happy New Year Paul/ette! Thank you for your courage in our seminar today! Many eager and anxious st…
Connections for 2023
At the start of this new year, I’d like to offer you my selection of online initiatives that y…
The Discipline of Discernment
Dear Stephan/ie, Your question is such a good one: What difference does it make to my studies that I…
Postdoc life as a liminal space
I’ve written here before about different stages in my academic career, and the opportunities a…
Do You Know Who’s With You?
Dear Robert/a, I’m so glad you came to see me in my office yesterday. It was good to hear how the ye…
Hope for the future of Christian higher education
This is the title of a conference I have just returned from in Liverpool – and also, I would s…
Teaching and learning in Narnia
The post two weeks ago by Richard described the inspiration found in C.S. Lewis’s The Abolitio…
Worldviews and Faithful Scholarship
Dear Christian Graduate Student, In my last post, I encouraged you to begin the academic year with a…
CS Lewis: a visionary for our time?
Many people know of C.S. Lewis through his Narnia stories. Many Christians also know him as an apolo…
Imitating the Inklings
Today I want to follow up my last post, about how exemplary figures, whether in our lives, in the Bi…
Art in times of crisis
Some years ago now, I wrote a post about the relationship between my faith and my love for avant-gar…
Love the Questions
New and returning graduate students, Welcome to this new 2022-2023 academic year! You have come to t…
What to study?
Now is a time when many students are choosing subjects to study. Those applying for undergraduate de…
Sustainability as Flourishing
A guest post by Victor Morales. Sustainable development has become the main issue at the dawn of thi…
Flourishing trees
About six weeks ago, I had the privilege of chairing one of the series of ‘Feeding the Earth’ webina…
Feeding the Earth – talks online!
Does Christian faith make a difference to food and eating? Anyone who reads the Bible will know that…
When ethical systems collide
News reports in the UK these last few days have commented on the resignation of Lord Geidt, the Prim…
Learning by example?
This year I have been thinking often about exemplars – figures in history, or fiction, seen as…
The Foundation of Christian Scholars(hip)
We now come to the conclusion of our series on Herman Dooyeweerd’s In the Twilight of Western T…
Feeding the Earth
This Friday sees the launch of a series of lunchtime webinars about a topic that affects all of us: …
Faith, Theology, and Philosophy – For All!
So far in our journey through Herman Dooyeweerd’s book In the Twilight of Western Thought, we …
Assessment, ranking and identity
As we enter May and begin to feel summer approach, academics around the UK are gearing up for a seas…
Swallowed up by life
Easter is mysterious. This isn’t a conclusion many come to in our culture today: from a secula…
What is your experience?
Walking into a classroom at one of the top universities in the world after 12 years out of education…
What’s Going On Here?
We’re continuing our discussion of Herman Dooyeweerd’s little book, In the Twilight of Western …
What’s Your Story?
One of the fruitful ideas I keep returning to in my life and scholarship is how stories or narrative…
Christian sustainability?
Sustainability is the watchword of our time. I wonder if it is the most widely shared ethic in today…
Herman Dooyeweerd, I Love You!
This is the second installment of my series of reflections on Herman Dooyeweerd’s little book, …
The many-sided wisdom of God
The KLC Junior Scholars’ Reading Group looking at Herman Dooyeweerd’s book In the Twilig…
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