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Death to 2021?

As we tiptoe tentatively through the first weeks of 2022, wondering what lies ahead for us this year, I’ve been musing on an attitude which I’ve seen cropping up in a few different places recently – most obviously in the title of the rather universally panned Netflix mockumentary ‘Death to Read more…

By Mark Hutchinson, 3 yearsJanuary 17, 2022 ago
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Faith-in-Scholarship

A high priest who can sympathise

We enter Holy Week this year just a few days after the year-anniversary of the UK’s first lockdown. What a difference a year makes. It’s become a staple of the national conversation in recent weeks to observe the transformation in attitudes, plans and expectations from last March up to now, the Read more…

By Mark Hutchinson, 4 yearsMarch 29, 2021 ago
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Faith-in-Scholarship

A Prayer for the Year

As this strange and troubling academic term comes to an end, I can think of no better way of finishing it than by turning to God in prayer—in adoration for his grace, confession and thanksgiving for what’s past, and supplication for the future. Dear Lord and Father, We thank you Read more…

By Georgina Bartlett, 5 yearsJune 22, 2020 ago
Dawn over water
Faith-in-Scholarship

A World in Pining

‘Long lay the world in sin and error pining,Till He appear’d and the soul felt its worth.A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices,For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn.’ I’ve remarked in previous posts how much I love Christmas; though it is nowhere near Christmastime, I was reminded Read more…

By Georgina Bartlett, 5 yearsMay 18, 2020 ago
Seedling
Faith-in-Scholarship

Time to grow?

Like many who are not schoolteachers, NHS staff or other key workers, in these recent weeks I have been getting used to spending most of my time at home, getting very acquainted with Zoom and the various tools we are using for online teaching at the university where I work. Read more…

By Mark Hutchinson, 5 yearsMay 5, 2020 ago
Pumpkin seedling
Faith-in-Scholarship

George MacDonald, Anxiety, and Joy

George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a Scottish clergyman and writer who profoundly influenced the fiction and non-fiction works of C.S. Lewis. One of Lewis’s lesser-known publications is an edited collection of MacDonald’s writings: the book can be hard to find in print now, but a dear friend gifted my a copy Read more…

By Georgina Bartlett, 5 yearsApril 13, 2020 ago
Desert path
Faith-in-Scholarship

A poem for a new year

As 2019 has come to a close, and a new decade is beginning, I have been thinking about a poem by Emily Dickinson – one of my favourites, for its enigmatic imagery and its expression of longing: ‘I did not reach Thee’. Here is the first stanza (you can read Read more…

By Alicia Smith, 5 yearsJanuary 6, 2020 ago
Christmas dinner table
Faith-in-Scholarship

On the seventh day of Christmas

I’ve always felt sad at the passing of Christmas Day: at how quickly the world moves on to Boxing-Day sales, extinguished fairy lights, discarded fir trees and raucous New-Year revelries.  Perhaps it’s partly nostalgia, but I yearn for those past times when the twelve days of Christmas were celebrated in full.  Read more…

By Richard Gunton, 5 yearsDecember 31, 2019 ago
Christmas tree
Faith-in-Scholarship

Everlasting Father

One of my favourite pieces of Christmas music is ‘For unto us a Child is born’ from Georg Friderich Händel’s Messiah. I have loved it since I was a child, touched by its bouncing joy and the intricacy of its polyphonic choral writing, with lines appearing and disappearing like needles through Read more…

By Georgina Bartlett, 5 yearsDecember 2, 2019 ago
Grapes on a vine
Faith-in-Scholarship

The vine and the branches

As we approach the most significant point in the Christian calendar – the weekend where we remember the sacrificial death and glorious resurrection of Jesus, our saviour – it is good to return to some of the core truths that he taught about himself whilst on earth. I’ve been struck recently Read more…

By Mark Hutchinson, 6 yearsApril 17, 2019 ago

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  1. James Skillen on The Incredible Story of the Slave who became a Famous ScientistApril 30, 2025

    Thanks very much Mark and Steve for this touching story. Doreen and I now live in Alabama and have visited…

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    Thanks Mark, for sharing another interesting and thought-provoking article.

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    Thanks for this piece and this reminder Mark, I'm grateful for the way the web has enabled me to daily…

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    Thanks for this piece, Mark. Yes, we should strive to conduct ourselves, however we use technology, with one central purpose…

  5. Dr Philip Thomas on Mysticism and Pagan PhilosophyFebruary 28, 2025

    Thanks, Mark for your research and analysis of mysticism, vis-à-vis Neoplatonism (be it "Christian" or otherwise). I particularly like your…

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