“Of making many books there is no end…” Ecclesiastes 12:12 There is a point of view from which it looks implausible that research in any field could continue indefinitely, century after century, endlessly discovering new things about reality. Part of the classic fin de siècle phenomenon was the suggestion that there might not be much Read more…
As part of our ongoing series on academic skills, today’s post is about the skill of asking questions well in an academic seminar (or similar setting). For many postgraduate students and researchers, especially in the humanities and social sciences, seminars focused on a particular interest area are the main way we Read more…
For the next in our series of posts on skills for Christian academics, I wanted to revisit one aspect of last week’s excellent post by Will Allchorn on ‘engaging in debate and controversy’. Will presented Dr Andrew Basden’s LACE framework for Christians engaging in academic debates – Listen, Affirm, Critique, Enrich. Read more…
Will Allchorn leads the Leeds Postgraduate Christian Fellowship and recently completed his PhD in political science at the University of Leeds, where he now has teaching responsibilities. “But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the Read more…
Mark Surey writes on the importance of listening: I have seldom met a scholar who is not fascinated by and excited about his or her field of study. That level of interest, combined with the God-given capacity to contribute, to a large extent forms the basis for a call to scholarship. It really helps Read more…
We’re aiming to write about various academic skills on FiSch over the next few months. Aside from the narrow, subject-specific skills we all acquire in our fields – from paleography to coding to titration – there are many more general skills academics need to thrive in our work, and through which Christians have Read more…
The second part of Bruno Medeiros’ series on Listening as a spiritual scholarly discipline: He taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said: Listen! … Mark 4:2 Give ear and hear my voice; Listen and hear my words. Isaiah 28:23 In an earlier post, I evoked John Stott’s theological concept Read more…