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The Importance of Culture for Academics

Last week, the most recent Postgrad Initiative email was sent out which introduced the idea of “Cultural Apologetics for Academia.” “Cultural apologetics” as opposed to traditional apologetics was framed as “showing how academics in all disciplines can introduce the gospel in a winsome way.” This quote from Collin Hansen was included in Read more…

By Michael Wagenman, 3 weeksMay 8, 2023 ago
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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 secular educational calendars. In our church calendar, we’ve just celebrated the cosmos-redeeming feast of Easter. And now we also come to this final installment of our reflections this year on the relationship between Read more…

By Michael Wagenman, 2 monthsApril 10, 2023 ago
Faith-in-Scholarship

Scholarship as Christian Courage

Dear Martin/e, This academic year, I’ve been reflecting with you on the topic of questions when it comes to the life of a Christian engaged in postgraduate studies. I’ve been working with the assumption that I hear from many Christian postgrads that there is a perceived tension between faith and Read more…

By Michael Wagenman, 4 monthsFebruary 13, 2023 ago
Faith-in-Scholarship

The Questions Within You

Happy New Year Paul/ette! Thank you for your courage in our seminar today! Many eager and anxious students are quick to speak up about what they think they know with certainty. You were braver today in giving voice among your peers about your questions! In fact, as I’ve come to Read more…

By Michael Wagenman, 4 monthsJanuary 16, 2023 ago
Faith-in-Scholarship

Postdoc life as a liminal space

I’ve written here before about different stages in my academic career, and the opportunities and challenges each one has brought. I’m now three months in to a postdoc research fellowship, my first full-time academic role after finishing my DPhil in 2020. It’s been a big move in various ways – Read more…

By Alicia Smith, 6 monthsDecember 5, 2022 ago
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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 year is going for you. It was also good to see your courage on display – it’s not easy to approach your professor with questions like the ones you’re Read more…

By Michael Wagenman, 6 monthsNovember 21, 2022 ago
Faith-in-Scholarship

Worldviews and Faithful Scholarship

Dear Christian Graduate Student, In my last post, I encouraged you to begin the academic year with a sense of adventure when it comes to the research questions you entertain, formulate, and pursue. We can have freedom to be academically curious because we live in God’s Creation and Jesus calls Read more…

By Michael Wagenman, 7 monthsOctober 24, 2022 ago
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Faith-in-Scholarship

Love the Questions

New and returning graduate students, Welcome to this new 2022-2023 academic year! You have come to this place and to this moment from a wide diversity of backgrounds, experiences, achievements, and challenges. But, nonetheless, one thing binds you together with a shared commonness: you have formulated a question. Your research Read more…

By Michael Wagenman, 9 monthsSeptember 12, 2022 ago
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Faith-in-Scholarship

Assessment, ranking and identity

As we enter May and begin to feel summer approach, academics around the UK are gearing up for a season of marking student exams, essays and coursework. This year, however, we are also nervously awaiting some results of our own: May 12 marks the date on which the results of Read more…

By Mark Hutchinson, 1 yearMay 2, 2022 ago
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What’s Going On Here?

We’re continuing our discussion of Herman Dooyeweerd’s little book, In the Twilight of Western Thought. In this month’s post, I’d like to do two things: 1) summarize Dooyeweerd’s explanation of the historical mode of human existence and 2) use his explanation to suggest some reflections for what’s going on currently in our Read more…

By Michael Wagenman, 1 yearApril 4, 2022 ago

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  1. Philip on New Age Faith and the Cosmic Ordering ServiceMay 24, 2023

    Blessings upon you, Mark, for highlighting in your brief article the sheer folly of the notion that we human beings…

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    You wonder if the universe, on such a view, would (or could!) ever "choose" (is that the appropriate word?) to…

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    Good one, Mark! You are right on point: Pantheism has no alternative but t deny that evil is real, and…

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    Really helpful article Mark - So much of the new age thinking seems to ignore the problem of evil -…

  5. Ted Newell on New Age Faith and the Cosmic Ordering ServiceMay 21, 2023

    I had an afternoon with a sincere well-educated Indian man lately. To him, Nothing is impossible if we grasp how…

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