Of all theĀ discipleshipĀ opportunitiesĀ open to Christian PhD students in the UK, perhaps the Cambridge Scholars Network offers evangelical thinkers the most sustained and intense mentoring experience you could easily apply for.Ā This year’s event runs from 12 to 18 July, and I’d like to encourage eligible readers of this blog to Read more
Christianity and the University Experience should be read by everyone concerned with ministry to students. It’s the outcome of a project in 2009ā2012 across thirteen English universities, investigating patterns of religious commitment among undergraduates identifying themselves as Christian. And perhaps the most striking finding of all was that 51% of all respondents identified themselves Read more
Joost Opschoor writes about the recent Catalysing Postgraduate Ministry conference. On 15-17 March 2019, about ten invited delegations of academics, postgrads and postgraduate ministry leaders gathered in New College, Oxford for the firstĀ Catalysing Postgraduate Ministry conference organised by theĀ Oxford PastorateĀ as a spin-off of theĀ Developing a Christian MindĀ conference. Both conferences took Read more
When God’s Spirit brings about a movement of change, it often seems to begin in disparate places and diverse ways through people who don’t know each other. For example, a remarkable number of broadly Evangelical organisations for cultural engagement seem to have sprung up in England in the 1980s ā of which Thinking Faith Network Read more
Last weekend in Oxford saw the second of this year’s Developing a Christian Mind conferences – an annual pair of events inviting postgraduate students to consider and deepen the intersection of their academic work with Christian faith. ‘Seeking Wisdom’ is split into multiple disciplinary streams (this year, Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Read more
Bruce Wearne encourages students to reflect upon institutional relationships in academic life and the effect of higher education reform. I first developed the above diagram as a part of my response to what was happening at Chisholm Institute of Technology (CIT) in Melbourne back in the 1980s. CIT was part Read more
One of the aims of Faith in Scholarship over the years has been to supportĀ groups for Christian postgraduate studentsĀ ā sometimes actively, sometimes through providing networks and resources. Most of the FiSch bloggers are or have been part of these groups in various universities across the country. Today I want to Read more
Chris Watkin, Senior Lecturer in French Studies at Monash University, Australia, recalls the origins of CHAS: The Cambridge CHAS group (Christians in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences) began in 2008 as an occasional and informal gathering of postgraduate students with a common interest in exploring what it means to Read more
We continue our journey around the country in search of Christian postgraduate groups, and today we are visiting Wales, where a group of Christian staff and postgraduates named āCriSPā has been meeting for a number of years. Founding member Caleb Woodbridge recalls: Back in 2009, I was working as an Read more
Continuing our series on local groups, Alan Chettle shares his experiences with us. Alan did his PhD in Manchester and has now gone back to Canada (where heās spentĀ most of his life)Ā to take up an internship with theĀ Graduate Student MinistryĀ ofĀ InterVarsity Christian FellowshipĀ in Vancouver. How did you get involved in ministry Read more