El Greco's "Christ Driving the Money-Changers from the Temple"
The heresy of orthodox economics

Orthodox free-market economics, rooted in principles of self-interest, individualism, and limited go…

Protected: Can AI be human?

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Reflections on a postdoc year in Canada

I’ve recently got back to the UK after spending a year living in Toronto, Canada, for a postdo…

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The “no evidence” fallacy

A news story currently being covered here in the UK concerns serious serial abuses by a healthcare w…

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Christian Economics?

Economics is the subject I most wish I had studied earlier than I did. Although my school offered an…

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Biblical – Not Biblicist – Scholarship

Maybe you’ve wondered this too: how does my faith relate to my scholarship? It might be easy to affi…

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A prisoner for Christ? Dealing with a difficult story from Christian history

The research postdoc I’ve been carrying out in Toronto this year has enabled me to start a new…

How ‘Biblical’ is “Biblical Critical Theory”?

Christopher Watkin’s new book, Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible’s Unfolding Story Makes …

The Importance of Culture for Academics

Last week, the most recent Postgrad Initiative email was sent out which introduced the ide…

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Is this a good school? The perils of far-fetched objectivity

It was at the start of this year that Ruth Perry, the headteacher of a primary school in Reading, to…

In Conclusion: First Steps in Becoming a Good and Faithful Questioner

My dear postgrad friends, We are quickly approaching the end of this academic year, according to our…

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Artificial intelligence in the image of God?

Image: AI-generated by DALL-E* I had a chat with a robot the other evening. The OpenAI project has r…

When Questions Question You

Dear Toby/i, I’ve been thinking about the off-hand comment you made in our seminar last week – when …

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Imitating the Inklings

Today I want to follow up my last post, about how exemplary figures, whether in our lives, in the Bi…

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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…

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Love the Questions

New and returning graduate students, Welcome to this new 2022-2023 academic year! You have come to t…

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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…

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Feeding the Earth – talks online!

Does Christian faith make a difference to food and eating? Anyone who reads the Bible will know that…

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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?
The Foundation of Christian Scholars(hip)
Hands with a world map on
Feeding the Earth
Faith, Theology, and Philosophy – For All!
a feedback survey
Assessment, ranking and identity
Swallowed up by life
What is your experience?
history
What’s Going On Here?
Hyperlinked Bible
What’s Your Story?
Christian sustainability?
Herman Dooyeweerd, I Love You!
The many-sided wisdom of God
Death to 2021?
The Myth of Neutrality
The life of Covid
Fighting fire with fire: Politics and the Bible
The Place of Academic Life
Researching medieval miracles
How Money Makes You Sad
Walking in freedom
"Thank you NHS" message painted on road
The Virus and the Soul
Every Breath the University Takes, continued…
Every Breath the University Takes
Faith in Democracy
Covid, language, information
Keep Calm sign
Is Covid history?
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Why do a PhD? Because God has a plan…
Abraham Kuyper’s view of the natural sciences
Power corrupts but absolute power is kinda cool
Christian Scholarship and Power
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A Reformational theory of objectivity?
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Ethical decision-making amid the Covid pandemic
Painting of windmill
Aesthetic Experience During Lockdown: Art and Hope
Virus and graph
COVID-19 and Economics
Rainbow
Aesthetic experience in the Covid era
St Michael's Mount
Religion in public in the Covid era
Left and right signposts
Challenging Christian stereotypes
COVID-19 word cloud
Making sense of Covid
Cartoon showing frustration with computers
Navigating Scholarly Disagreement
Congregation in a graveyard
Worshipping in the graveyard
Foggy road
One year on: writing from the middle of the story
Three crosses
A high priest who can sympathise
African Wild Dog
God’s Vision for our Relationship with the Natural World
Forest
Church forests: the Gospel in trees?
Science
Is Science being defrocked?
Demonstration
Power as a Christian Scholar’s Vocation
Man standing in field of grass
Science and Revelation
Laptop keyboard
Technology, inclusion, community
Illustration of a book of nature
Revelation and Science
Hong Kong flowers
A Prayer for the Year
The Spirit of Secularization
Dawn over water
A World in Pining
The Secularization of Science
Seedling
Time to grow?
Thank you blocks
Writing acknowledgements: depending on others
Pumpkin seedling
George MacDonald, Anxiety, and Joy
The territories of science and religion - book cover
Charting the territories of science and religion
Bible on lectern
Solitude and unity: a medieval perspective
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Academic Publishing: A Necessary Evil?
Deer in the morning mist
Doing Value Studies
Hands clasped in prayer
Reading and praying
Watch
Full time, big time… God’s time?
Pink sky over trees
In Between-Times
Cambridge Scholars Network
The Cambridge Scholars Network
Abstract mathematical symbols
A joined-up cosmos for geniuses?
Desert path
A poem for a new year
Christmas dinner table
On the seventh day of Christmas
Christmas tree
Everlasting Father
Great mathematicians
On the sources of genius
Hand writing with pen
Studying in Babylon?
Painting showing Jesus washing Peter's feet
Intellectual servanthood
In and out of the university
Praying hands
A Student’s Prayer
Snow-covered mountains
Gratitude: Reflections at an Academic Waypoint
Lecture theatre filled with students
Pedagogues or parents?
Hand writing with pencil in spiral bound notebook
Redrafts, patience, and God in the details
Canal boats
A Holiday for the Restless
Diagram showing the opening-up of the law side of nature
A Christian view of scientific progress
Mistakes highlighted in red
Critical thinking and grace
Woman places hand gently on man's shoulder
Practising gentleness in academia?
Christian fishes
Sharing the Good News
Clouds
The Spirit of academic research
Boy studying in empty library
Staying connected to others as a researcher
Marinus Dirk Stafleu
A science of science: Dick Stafleu’s ‘Theories at Work’
Tools and plans
Future planning and God’s will
Students in DPhil gowns
Why do a PhD? For an integrated life
Christianity and the University Experience - book cover
Review: Christianity and the University Experience
Grapes on a vine
The vine and the branches
Christian Postgrad Ministries attendees
Catalysing Postgraduate Ministry: a special conference
A grid of postgrad groups
The secret society of Christian postgrads
Developing a Christian Mind attendees
Reflections on ‘Developing a Christian Mind’ 2019
Warwick Castle
High Walls and Ivory Towers: Inadequacy in Academia
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Announcing the Society of Christian Scholars
Desiring the Kingdom - book cover
Review: Desiring the Kingdom, James K.A. Smith
Poster for Christian Responses to the Far Right event
What can Christians do to combat the Far Right?
Old Bodleian
Fools for Christ
Christian Philosophy - book cover
Christian Philosophy: a Systematic and Narrative Introduction
Cave
Evolution and epistemic humility
Lecturer
Teaching, individualism, and community
Christmas branch
Home Came for Christmas
Candles
Scholars as Disciples at Advent

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