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Science Network: What Einstein got right about science and religion (and a lot he got wrong)
If someone asked you to name the most famous scientist you can think of, I’d bet that nine times out of ten you’ll pick Albert Einstein. If science was an Olympic sport, he’s the GOAT. The German physicist, born in 1879, shot to prominence in the early 20th century with his theories of general and …
Read morePolitics Network: Discussion - 'Compassion and Conviction: The AND Campaign's Guide to Faithful Civic Engagement' by Justin Giboney, Michael Wear, and Chris Butler
Our discussion guide for the AND Campaign’s ‘Compassion and Conviction.
Read moreScience Network: 4. Lydia Jaeger on why theology needs science – and why science needs theology
Read moreScience Network: Gen Z are changing the conversation about science and religion
Read moreLaw Network: Truths and Tribulations: Seasoned lawyers speaking about justice and faith
Read moreMusic Network: Discover and Develop: Experimental Music, Creation, and the Cultural Mandate
An argument for greater engagement with experimental music by Christians
Read morePolitics Network: Compassion and Conviction - an Interview with the AND Campaign
We have been big fans of the AND Campaign for a while now so we sat down with founder and leader Justin Giboney to hear a little bit more about what they do.
Read morePolitics Network: Discussion - 'God and Politics: Jesus' Vision for Society, State and Government' by Mark Dever
A starter for discussing Mark Dever’s book ‘God and Politics’.
Read moreScience Network: Forum 2021: Living and speaking for Jesus in the world of science
Seminar recorded at Forum 2021
Read moreScience Network: 5. Ruth Bancewicz on wonder and worship in science
Read moreScience Network: Discussion questions: Can Science Explain Everything?
Read moreScience Network: Lennox vs Atkins: Can science explain everything?
Read moreScience Network: Yes, you can be a Christian and accept evolution
Yes, you can be a Christian and accept evolution. Is that a controversial way to start this article? It got to you click on the link and start reading, so I guess you must have found the title at least a bit intriguing!
Read moreScience Network: Book review: Mere Science and Christian Faith
Greg Cootsona’s most recent work into debunking the conflict between science and faith is a refreshing, encouraging, and challenging read for all who wish to see the church embrace science rather than fear it.
Read moreScience Network: Science and the quest for truth
At his trial, when Jesus was interrogated by the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, he replied, “For this reason I was born and for this purpose I came into the world – to bear witness to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me” (John 18:37). Pilate famously retorted, “What is truth?”
Read moreScience Network: Science and the God who speaks
The word of God, according to Hebrews 1, is the means by which God upholds all things. While recalling the word of God spoken by the prophets and proclaiming the Word in whom God “has spoken to us by His Son”, the prologue to Hebrews is completed by a reference to God’s word of power.
Read moreScience Network: Word Alive 2022: Science and the future of humanity
In every age, technology has shaped how we see ourselves. With this in mind, we’ll unpack what the Bible says about who God has made us to be.
Read moreTeaching Network: TN Podcast 11: AP, SEND and Other Letters - Elaine and Millie Help Us Out
Read moreArts Network: AI and Design
Sam Lucas helps us to consider AI as a tool that can help us to open up questions about God and what it means to be human.
Read moreArts Network: Art and the Environment
Environmental Issues, the Arts, and the Christian Faith with Kaori Homma
Read moreArts Network: Feminism and the Arts (Part 1)
Alex Lucas discusses her arts practice at our November 2022 Interface Gathering
Read moreArts Network: Feminism and the Arts (Part 2)
A summary of Ellidh Cook’s discussion on the topic of feminism
Read moreLaw Network: Intercession and the role of Christian lawyers
Read moreLaw Network: Book Review: A Biblical view of law and justice
Read moreLaw Network: No Condemnation! The cross and God’s courtroom
Read moreMusic Network: Appendix to 'Beauty and the Bible'
An appendix to Becky Chevis’s article ‘Beauty and the Bible’
Read moreMusic Network: Beauty and the Bible
How the Bible speaks of ‘beauty’ and what this means for our music
Read moreMusic Network: Beauty, Begbie, and the Bible
Some ideas on the concept of beauty, as outlined in Jeremy Begbie’s book ‘A Peculiar Orthodoxy’
Read moreMusic Network: Money, mediocrity, and the myth of 'making it'
A lengthy article on career, calling, and contentment as a professional musician
Read moreMusic Network: Music & Dementia #1 - on being human, and one's value
Thoughts on working as a Christian musician with adults in dementia care
Read moreMusic Network: Music & Dementia #2 - on eternity, boundaries, and serving others
Some more thoughts on working as a Christian musician with adults in dementia care
Read moreMusic Network: Music - worshipped and adored?
An article on how music’s propensity to be idolised
Read moreMusic Network: A Biblical Basis for Music and the Performing Arts
The underlying biblical foundations for music
Read moreMusic Network: Should I take this gig or not? Part 3: Wisdom, folly, sin and Sundays
In considering whether to take gigs on Sundays, what does biblical wisdom dictate?
Read moreMusic Network: Sing and tell
The vital role of singing in healthy Christian community
Read moreMusic Network: Shattered hopes and humble offerings: when music gets cancelled
Lessons learnt from the Covid-induced cancellation of music work in 2020
Read moreMusic Network: How best to welcome and serve international students
Tips for how best to welcome, befriend, and serve international students
Read moreMusic Network: How can I best reach out with the gospel to other musicians?
Some key ways to make your outreach to musicians more effective, explained in under 5 minutes
Read moreMusic Network: How do worship and music relate to each other?
Worship and music’s relationship explained in under 5 minutes
Read moreMusic Network: Music and the Glory of God - Word Alive 2018
Three students’ perspectives on the MN training track at Word Alive 2018
Read morePolitics Network: A Christian Approach to Welfare, Social Mobility, and Poverty Relief
The Politics Network hears from a Parliamentary Researcher on how the Bible informs their approach to the issues of welfare, social mobility, and poverty relief.
Read morePolitics Network: Humble and Faithful: The Importance of Character
Civil Servant Adam Isaacs shares his reflections on a life of politics and how one makes a difference as they serve.
Read morePolitics Network: No Man is an Island: Community, Loneliness, and Preparing to Graduate
In this post Sachay reflects on his experience as a recent graduate and the importance of finding church community as he begun a career in politics.
Read morePolitics Network: Policy-making: the Good, the Bad and the Christian
Politics is all about policy, but what is policy? How should we think about it as Christians? What sort of policy should we pursue? All these questions and more are answered in this piece.
Read morePolitics Network: Race, Refugees, and Immigration
Following the death of George Floyd, the matter of racial equality and justice was catapulted into the centre of the political consciousness and #BlackLivesMatter become a global movement and household slogan. Ray Brown joined us at Civitas to help us think about this and related conversations all …
Read morePolitics Network: The Politics Network Discusses Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery
We sat down with Alianore Smith of IJM to chat about the work they do in tackling human trafficking and modern day slavery.
Read morePolitics Network: The Politics Network Discusses International Aid and Development
The Politics Network sat down with Baroness Cox to chat about her work in international aid and development and the way her Christian faith shapes all she does.
Read morePolitics Network: Can a Pro-Lifer be Pro-Women?
Contributor, Nicola shares her thoughts on Maria Caulfield’s recent appointment as Minister for Women.
Read morePolitics Network: Civility and Boundaries in Public Life
Contributor Elliot shares his reflections on the Dominic Raab saga.
Read morePolitics Network: Humility and the 45p Tax Rate
Contributor, Elliot Curryer, shares his reflections on the climb-down from the Chancellor on the proposed 40p top rate of tax.
Read morePolitics Network: Repentance, Character, and the Windsor Framework
Adam looks at the changing UK-EU relationship in light of the Windsor Framework and asks what we could learn as believers from this attempt at resetting relations.
Read morePolitics Network: The NHS at 75 and Hope Beyond
As the NHS celebrates its 75th birthday, Elliot shares his thoughts on this landmark occasion.
Read morePolitics Network: Meal with a Message: Can We Ever Hope to Establish Justice?
Why not invite some mates for dinner and gather around this talk, first given at Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union, to start some big discussions about faith and justice???
Read morePolitics Network: Meal With a Message: Public Decency and Integrity - Where are you?
With all the headlines about standards in public office we ask does the gospel have anything to say on this matter?
Read morePolitics Network: Praying for our Leaders: A Duty and Privilege
In this resource Nathan helps us to think through the Biblical command to pray for our political leaders and how we might put this into action.
Read morePolitics Network: The Air We Breathe: How We All Came to Believe in Freedom, Kindness, Progress, and Equality
We sat down with Glen Scrivener about his most recent book ‘The Air We Breathe’ and what we can learn as Christians seeking to defend and celebrate our faith in the public square.
Read morePolitics Network: Awaiting the King Session 5: Israel and the Law
The fifth session in our Bible study series ‘Awaiting the King: The Political Narrative at the Heart of the Bible’
Read morePolitics Network: Awaiting the King Session 6: Israel and the King
The sixth session in our Bible study series ‘Awaiting the King: The Political Narrative at the Heart of the Bible’
Read morePolitics Network: Discussion - 'How the Nations Rage: Rethinking Faith and Politics in a Divided Age' by Jonathan Lehman
Some questions to get you started in thinking through Leeman’s ‘How the Nations Rage’
Read morePolitics Network: Discussion - 'Plugged In: Connecting Your Faith With What You Watch, Read, and Play' by Daniel Strange
Our guide to get the most out of reading Dan Strange’s ‘Plugged In’
Read morePolitics Network: Discussion - 'The Air We Breathe: How We All Came to Believe in Freedom, Kindness, Progress, and Equality' by Glen Scrivener
Our discussion guide to help you get the most out of Glen Scrivener’s ‘The Air We Breathe’
Read morePolitics Network: Book Review: The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self - Carl Trueman (2020)
Here guest author, Tom Marsh, helps us to grapple with the content of Carl Trueman’s book ‘The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self’.
Read morePolitics Network: Christianity as Public Truth: Tolerance, Pluralism, and Freedom
We live in a liberal and pluralistic society and the question of what role should Christianity play within this political culture is a big one. Some argue for a Christian nation, others that faith has no role to play in a secular society. Dr Jonathan Chaplin outlines some of the challenges and …
Read morePolitics Network: Gleaning and the Global Economy
Former Politics Network student, Evan, shares his thoughts on what the Old Testament principle of gleaning might mean for us today.
Read morePolitics Network: Book Review: God and Politics - Mark Dever (2016)
A review of God and Politics - Mark Dever (2016)
Read morePolitics Network: Justice and the Role of Government
The second article in our series thinking about Biblical Justice, we explore what we are to expect and demand of our governments in this pursuit of justice.
Read morePolitics Network: Socialism and Pluriformity
Academic, David Koyzis, looks at the origins of Socialism and offers a Christian assessment.
Read moreScience Network: Running a Science Network Hub
Read moreScience Network: Think, Live, Speak session 5: Science as worship
For scientists in the church, doing science is an important part of how they are called to worship God.
Read moreScience Network: Think, Live, Speak session 1: Theology of science
Science is God’s good idea to help us relate to him and his creation.
Read moreScience Network: Think, Live, Speak session 3: Creation and evolution
Christians hold different views on how Genesis fits with science, but we can agree on some important theological principles.
Read moreScience Network: Supporting science students: thoughts for student workers
Read moreScience Network: How can I glorify God as a scientist?
Recording of an online event held in November 2021
Read moreScience Network: Humility in science
Read moreScience Network: Scientific virtues and the fruit of the Spirit — Curiosity
Esther Fordwor reflects on curiosity as a virtue in scientific research.
Read moreScience Network: Scientific virtues and the fruit of the Spirit – Integrity
Andrew Rogers reflects on integrity as a virtue in science.
Read moreScience Network: Scientific virtues and the fruit of the Spirit – Kindness
Joycelyn Tan reflects on kindness as a virtue in research.
Read moreScience Network: Scientific virtues and the fruit of the Spirit – Peace
Zi Yang Chew writes about peace as a virtue in scientific research.
Read moreScience Network: 2. Zachary Ardern and Anke Arentsen on seeing God’s hand in creation
Our guests this week are Dr Zachary Ardern, postdoctoral fellow in evolutionary biology at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, and Dr Anke Arentsen, postdoc in galactic archaeology at the University of Cambridge. We chatted about God’s creative work in the laws of nature, the possibility of …
Read moreScience Network: 3. Denis Alexander on genetic determinism and overseas mission
Read moreScience Network: 6. David Wilkinson on sci-fi and Jesus
Sci-fi nerds, this one’s for you! We’re joined this week on the podcast by Revd Professor David Wilkinson of Durham University to discuss the fundamental questions that science fiction raises about our humanity, and how we can engage with these as Christians. We explore parallels between sci fi and …
Read moreScience Network: Can a rational person believe in miracles?
Chris Oldfield tackles this question as part of our series ‘One Minute Apologetics’.
Read moreScience Network: Choosing a great title for your science event
So, you’d like to have a go at hosting a science-themed evangelistic event to invite friends and coursemates along to. But what topic to choose?
Read moreScience Network: Hosting discussions, debates and dialogues
Ever thought about hosting an evangelistic event that brings different worldviews into dialogue? Here, Zachary Ardern draws on many years of experience in university ministry to share his top tips for hosting a discussion, debate or dialogue.
Read moreScience Network: Does religion inhibit scientific progress?
Josh Baylis addresses this question as part of our One Minute Apologetics series.
Read moreScience Network: Does science prove the Bible wrong on origins?
Read moreScience Network: Does science provide any evidence for God?
Read moreScience Network: Reaching the world for Christ through science
Read moreScience Network: What can I say? John Lennox at Forum 2019
Read moreScience Network: Book review: God, Stephen Hawking and the Multiverse
Hawking was not a man to avoid explaining complex ideas to the general public. His book ‘A Brief History of Time’, was a global bestseller, in spite of its theoretical cosmology theme. Hutchings and David Wilkinson’s book, ‘God, Stephen Hawking and the Multiverse’, follows in this tradition, …
Read moreScience Network: Book review: The Lost World of Adam and Eve
What is Genesis 1-3 actually about? It’s an important question for theologians, for scientists seeking to reconcile Scripture with scientific accounts of humanity’s origins, and for all of us as we consider our identity as human beings and our place in the world. In his book The Lost World of Adam …
Read moreScience Network: Can an evolutionary biologist believe in purpose?
“As far as we can tell from a purely scientific viewpoint, human life has absolutely no meaning. Humans are the outcome of blind evolutionary processes that operate without goal or purpose.” Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: a brief history of humankind (Harari 2014).
Read moreScience Network: Can Christians work in the arms industry?
A quick scan of any STEM careers fair confirms that which we see in headlines: war is big business. For many generations, the defence sector has been one of the primary employers of STEM graduates and this trend looks set to continue.
Read moreScience Network: Discussion questions: Matters of Life and Death
Author Professor John Wyatt has kindly provided these dicussion questions especially for Science Network to accompany his book ‘Matters of Life and Death’, which explores Christian ethics surrounding beginning and end of life issues. Why not use them as part of a Science Network book …
Read moreScience Network: Empiricism and the incarnation: how the scientific method helps us understand Christmas
How do you feel when you’re proven wrong about something? Imagine you’re sat around on Christmas afternoon, chatting about a family story from a few Christmases ago. You’re insistent that you remember things happening a certain way. But when the childhood photo album comes out, …
Read moreScience Network: Forum 2022: Hasn't science killed atheism?
“Scientific advances have made God irrelevant”. It’s a familiar objection – but in this pair of seminars recorded at Forum 2022, we’re turning the tables.
Read moreScience Network: From head to heart: Christianity and climate change
I was born, raised and educated in South Africa, before leaving to put my knowledge, and love for, marine biology into practice in the ‘real world’. Embedded within communities in Madagascar and the Republic of Maldives, I experienced a way of life which was highly reliant on weather …
Read moreScience Network: Hildegard of Bingen: medieval mother of science
‘Glance at the sun. See the moon and the stars. Gaze at the beauty of earth’s greenings. Now, think. What delight God gives to humankind with all these things… . All nature is at the disposal of humankind. We are to work with it. For without we cannot survive.’
Read moreScience Network: If science explains the origin of the universe, do I still need God?
Speaking at a Science Network online event in October 2020, Dr Alexander Fink addresses the question: ‘If science explains the origin of the universe, do I still need God?’
Read moreScience Network: Is there a multiverse and does it matter?
Everything Everywhere All at Once is a creative movie released in 2022 playing with the possibility that I might not only exist in this universe, but in different versions of myself in many other universes…
Read moreScience Network: As a scientist, can I really take the miraculous claims of the Bible seriously?
Speaking at a Science Network online event in November 2020, Dr Denis Alexander addresses the question: ‘As a scientist, can I really take the miraculous claims of the Bible seriously?’
Read moreScience Network: The cross, the tomb, and the scientist
Easter is just around the corner. I know this because slowly but surely, everything is turning pastel-coloured. In most years this would be visible in the cheery yellow and pink shop window displays that appear in the centre of Cambridge, where I live, featuring bunnies and baskets of painted eggs. …
Read moreScience Network: The eternal significance of a career in science
For some, the investment of energy in full time church work is held up as being of greater eternal value than pursuing a career in science. This can put a huge and misplaced amount of pressure on both Christians pursuing careers in science and in ministry.
Read moreScience Network: Unselfish gardeners: Christianity and the environment
Human degradation of the natural environment is a great tragedy of our time. One of its major drivers is selfishness leading to over-consumption and waste. Despite growing concern about the environment, the majority of us struggle to forgo convenience and consumption for the long-term good of the …
Read moreScience Network: What does the gospel have to do with science?
‘For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.’ John’s pithy statement in chapter three of his Gospel is probably the most famous summary of the Christian message.
Read moreScience Network: What is science for?
Try Googling ‘Science and Christianity’ – the next word in the auto-suggest list is ‘conflict’. Hit return and the first page of titles includes the questions, ‘Are Science and Christianity at War?’ and ‘Has Science Disproved God?’
Read moreScience Network: Why scientism actually undermines science
According to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, this is the answer to the ultimate question of “life, the universe, and everything”. A two-digit number is proposed to be the answer to the question pondered by humanity for centuries – and yet the answer is, in this fictional universe, produced by …
Read moreScience Network: Word Alive 2019: Worshipping God through science
Ruth Bancewicz unpacks some of the background to the history and philosophy of science, and shows how the Bible points us to a Christ-centred theology of nature.
Read moreTeaching Network: All Things Bright and New
Read moreTeaching Network: Mental Health and Rest in Jesus
Tom Cunliffe explores what it means to lean on Jesus
Read moreTeaching Network: TN Podcast 7: Bryony and Zanna Take Over
What is it like to train to teach and live for Jesus. Bryony and Zanna discuss all.
Read moreTeaching Network: TN Podcast 9: Jess and Dan Remind Us What It's All About
The joy of Jesus makes a difference that it’s hard to hide.
Read moreTeaching Network: Philippians 1: Love, Learning and Life
The first in the Philippians series (1:1-11)
Read moreTeaching Network: Philippians #4: Stars, a Son and a Soldier
The gospel flips us inside out and God’s work in us changes us from the inside out. In this study, consider the three pictures Paul gives us that make this point.
Read moreTeaching Network: Can we teach our way to a better humanity?
Can we teach our way to a better humanity?
Read moreTeaching Network: Love, Learning and Life: How Does Paul Teach Us to Grow?
Read moreTeaching Network: TN Podcast 1: Light, Gifts and Greggs
Gareth, Steve and Katie chat about the purpose of being a teacher
Read moreTheology Network: Christian Theology and the Academic Discipline
Read moreTheology Network: Devotional Life and Theology
Read moreTheology Network: Fear and Loathing in Las Vagueness
Find your inner Luther and turn your theology to the transformation of the Church for her good and God’s glory.
Read moreTheology Network: Secular Scholarship and Common Grace
Why should we bother reading scholars who do not share our faith position? What conceptual ‘space’ can we appeal to in justifying our engagement with hostile, liberal and antagonistic theological voices?
Read moreTheology Network: Theology Students and Mission
What exactly do you do with a theology degree, other than becoming a minister or RE teacher? What do you do if you don’t consider yourself called and gifted for either of those vocations?
Read moreTheology Network: Theology, Worship and Devotional Life - Forum 2022
Catch up on Forum 2022
Read moreTheology Network: Example Event: Can Old Texts Tell Us About God?
Read moreTheology Network: For the Bible tells me so? The roles of faith and evidence in believing the Bible
Read moreTheology Network: How can I respond to Muslims’ Questions about the Trinity?
Read moreTheology Network: Speaking for Jesus in Seminars and Lectures
Read moreTheology Network: Theology and Evangelism - Forum 2022
Catch up on this seminar from Forum 2022
Read moreTheology Network: An Introduction to the Fall and Sin
Read moreTheology Network: Archaeology and the Hebrew Exodus
Read moreTheology Network: Assessing Sociology of Religion
Religion is a social phenomenon. Our beliefs are not received directly from heaven. They are mediated through others and shaped by our social context. The family in which we grow, the church in which our faith is nurtured, the events which give us key religious experiences and the broader social …
Read moreTheology Network: Christian Uniqueness, Pluralism, and the "Theology of Religions"
Read moreTheology Network: Inspiration and reading for the meaning of 'the author.'
Alongside historical questions about the authorship of specific books of the Bible is a broader set of theological questions. How does inspiration shape how we think about the author(s) of Scripture? Which dimension of authorship do we look at to determine meaning in the text? God, the human …
Read moreTheology Network: Perspectives on Paul, Justification, and the Law: an annotated bibliography
Read moreTheology Network: The Theology of the End and the End of Theology
Dan Strange talks about how a well grounded eschatological mindset can provide the perspective and direction for theology that is not only faithful and thoughtful, but also relevant and eternally significant.
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