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Music Network: Art & Music - A Student's Guide
A book review of ‘Art & Music - A Student’s Guide’ by Paul Munson and Joshua Farris Drake
Read moreArts Network: Liturgy as a Way of Life: A Book Review
What is your greatest artistic achievement? A painting? A design? A performance piece? Author Bruce Ellis Benson in his book Liturgy as a Way of Life, proposes that instead, our greatest work of art should be our lives.
Read moreArts Network: The Faithful Artist: A Book Review
Book Review of ‘The Faithful Artist: A Vision for Evangelicalism and the Art’ by Cameron J. Anderson. As an evangelical Christian working in the art world, I’ve sometimes felt like I’m in a strange lonely category of my own. Thankfully, the older I get, the more Christian artists I meet …
Read moreLaw Network: Book Review: Good News for the Public Square
A review of Good News for the Public Square, ‘a Biblical framework for Christian Engagement’ in public life, published by the Lawyers’ Christian Fellowship.
Read moreLaw Network: Book Review: A Biblical view of law and justice
Read moreLaw Network: Book Review: Generous Justice
A book review of “Generous Justice” by Tim Keller
Read moreLaw Network: Book Review: The great divide
Book Review: The Great Divide by Mark Greene
Read moreMusic Network: Being in the music world but not of the music world
A summary of Jonathan Girling’s Music Network talk at Word Alive 2019
Read moreMusic Network: Ecclesiastes for music students
Reflections on the message of Ecclesiastes and how we might live it out as musicians
Read moreMusic Network: The best ideas for lunchtime talks for music students
Three lunchtime-talk topics especially appropriate to the world of music
Read moreMusic Network: What is the Music Network's theology of music in a nutshell?
The MN’s theology of music explained in under 5 minutes
Read morePolitics Network: Book Review: A Better Ambition – Tim Farron MP (2019)
A review of ‘A Better Ambition: Confessions of a Faithful Liberal’ – Tim Farron MP (2019)
Read morePolitics Network: Book Review: A Practical View of Christianity - William Wilberforce (1797)
Tom reviews William Wilberforce’s a Practical View of Christianity with an eye to what we might have to learn from this epic work for our present political moment.
Read morePolitics Network: Book Review: Against The Flow - John Lennox (2015)
In 2014 the former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams caused shockwaves when he declared his belief that Britain was now a ‘post Christian society.’
Read morePolitics Network: Book Review: The Secular Creed - Rebecca McLaughlin (2021)
How do we understand the world around us? How do we share the gospel when people think Christianity is an active force for bad? Rebecca helps us think through all these questions and more in this short book. Review by Politics Network student, Lyza.
Read morePolitics Network: Book Review: 'A Christian Manifesto' by Francis Schaeffer
Politics Network member Sam offers a summary of Schaeffer’s A Christian Manifesto.
Read morePolitics Network: Book Review: Awaiting the King - James K A Smith (2017)
Charlie Watkins reviews the finale of James K A Smith’s Cultural Liturgies series, Awaiting the King: Reforming Public Theology.
Read morePolitics Network: Book Review: Being the Bad Guys - Stephen McAlpine (2021)
Politics Network Member, Lachlan, reflects on our recent book of the term ‘Being the Bad Guys: How to Live for Jesus in a World That Says You Shouldn’t’ by Stephen McAlpine
Read morePolitics Network: Book Review: Confronting Injustice Without Compromising Truth - Thaddeus Williams (2020)
A review of Thaddeus Williams’ work examining the social justice movement and the need for truth.
Read morePolitics Network: Book Review: Creation Regained - Albert Wolters (2005)
Former Politics Network member, Munzer, looks at the work of Al Wolters and how it might help us in our politics.
Read morePolitics Network: Book Review: God Created Humanism – The Christian Basis of Secular Values. Theo Hobson (2018)
A book review of Theo Hobson’s God Created Humanism - The Christian Basis of Secular Values.
Read morePolitics Network: Book Review: God’s Good Economy – Andrew Hartropp (2019)
A review of God’s Good Economy: Doing Economic Justice in Today’s World’ – Andrew Hartropp (2019)
Read morePolitics Network: Book Review: Good News for the Public Square - Editor Timothy Laurence (2014)
Will Coombs helps us think through the content of Good News for the Public Square - a key book for anyone thinking about how Christians engage with politics in the UK.
Read morePolitics Network: Book Review: Including the Stranger – David G. Firth (2019)
A review of ‘Including the Stranger: Foreigners in the Former Prophets’ by David G. Firth (2019)
Read morePolitics Network: Book Review: Plugged In - Dan Strange (2019)
Politics Network student, Elikem, shares with us Dan Strange’s book and how it might help us as we seek to stand for Jesus in the public square.
Read morePolitics Network: Book Review: Political Visions & Illusions – David T. Koyzis (2019)
A review of David T. Koyzis’ ’Political Visions & Illusions: A Survey and Christian Critique of Contemporary Ideologies’.
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: Book Review: The Abolition of Man - C.S. Lewis (1943)
Politics Network member, Bradley, reflects on C.S. Lewis’ Abolition of Man - one of the Reading Group’s book of the term in 2022.
Read morePolitics Network: Book Review: The Liturgy of Politics - Kaitlyn Schiess (2020)
Politics Network member Bea, reflects on Kaitlyn Schiess’ book ‘the Liturgy of Politics’ and pulls out some pointers for us to learn from.
Read morePolitics Network: Book Review: To Change the World - James Davidson Hunter (2010)
A review of ‘To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World’ by James Davidson Hunter.
Read morePolitics Network: Book Review: God and Politics - Mark Dever (2016)
A review of God and Politics - Mark Dever (2016)
Read moreScience Network: Book review: God in the Lab
Ruth Bancewicz
Read moreScience Network: Book review: Blue Planet, Blue God
The sea is something that we rarely consider in our everyday lives, but it is so vast and shapes so much of everything around us - weather, climate, our diet, our products, our history, and our planet! What does the Bible say about it?
Read moreScience Network: Book review: Enriching our Vision of Reality
The standard assumption of our society is that science and Christianity do not go together. Either they are in direct conflict, as Dawkins and the New Atheists would have it, or at the very least they have nothing much to say to each other.
Read moreScience Network: Book review: Creation or Evolution: Do We Have to Choose?
The title of Denis Alexander’s book reflects a tension felt by many Christian students starting out in science. At church on Sunday night, Romans chapter 5 is open in front of you as the pastor explains how death entered the world through Adam. Just a few hours later in your Monday 9am, you’re …
Read moreScience Network: Book review: Galileo's Daughter
Galileo’s Daughter is a beautiful and well researched account of the renowned and legendary scientist Galileo Galilei and his daughter, Suor Maria Celeste. It is a little-known fact that Galileo had an illegitimate daughter who was an intellectual equal to Galileo and just as crucial to scientific …
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: Maximum Life
What does living as a Christian look like for you? Have you ever felt like God wasn’t interested in what you do outside of time in church, whether it is the meal you’re cooking for dinner tonight, the latest novel you’re reading, or protecting the environment?
Read moreScience Network: Book review: The Life We’re Looking For
The technology that surrounds us has given us incredible power, yet it so often leaves us personally unfulfilled. Our impersonal devices and their robotic efficiency may increase our impact on the world, but they can leave us feeling like robots ourselves and can hinder us from forming deep …
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: 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: Book review: The Language of God
There have undoubtedly been many books written on the question as to whether one can be a Christian and a scientist (perhaps meaning can one be a Christian and yet use reason). Not having read them all, The Language of God stood out to me nonetheless as being a very readable, engaging, accessible, …
Read moreTeaching Network: On Christian Teaching - Book Review
A review of this helpful book by David Smith
Read moreArts Network: Art Network Interviews: Luned Gwawr Evans
Set and Performance Designer Luned Gwawr Evans shares her reflections on working in the creative industry as a Christian
Read moreArts Network: Arriving at Art College
You’ve just arrived at art college. It’s a pretty exciting time; you have been released from the shackles of other subjects and can wholly delve into your artistic practice and make work all day long! And yet coupled with this excitement is a nervous anticipation: what will art college …
Read moreArts Network: Faithful Christian Art?
Watch Jess Lacey and Dohyun Baek discuss the topic ‘Art and Faith’ from last year’s October Interface
Read moreArts Network: Art and the Environment
Environmental Issues, the Arts, and the Christian Faith with Kaori Homma
Read moreArts Network: Being Human in the Art World
I have a background in fine art and a great love for artists. I’m also a follower of Christ. So my friend’s statement got me thinking. How has the way art depicts ‘what it means to be human’ changed over time? How should the truths of the Christian view of humanity shape my own creative practice?
Read moreArts Network: Exhibition Review: The Van Gogh Immersive Experience
Student Daisy shares her experience of the Van Gogh immersive experience in York this term
Read moreArts Network: Postmodern Art & Christianity
Thinking through how to engage with Postmodern Art as a Christian
Read moreLaw Network: The Book of the Law Found
Read moreMusic Network: Discover and Develop: Experimental Music, Creation, and the Cultural Mandate
An argument for greater engagement with experimental music by Christians
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: Playing music in church
Some biblical principles for thinking about serving in church with our music
Read moreMusic Network: Seeing every piece of music-making through the lens of the Gospel
Principles from Ted Turnau’s book ‘Popologetics’ applied to music-making
Read moreMusic Network: The Music of Heaven
Some thoughts on music in the new creation
Read moreMusic Network: The tongue: the music student's most powerful instrument of all (Part 1)
Bible teaching on the power of the tongue, applied to the world of music
Read moreMusic Network: The tongue: the music student's most powerful instrument of all (Part 2)
More Bible teaching on the power of the tongue, applied to the world of music
Read moreMusic Network: To engage or not to engage: responding to ungodliness in music
Wisdom on how to respond to ungodliness in music, collated from a Music Network colloquium on new music in February 2020
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: Why I've desired choral music more than ever lately
Reflections on Covid, choral music, and community.
Read moreMusic Network: Music in God's Purposes
A book review of ‘Music in God’s Purposes’ by Jeremy Begbie
Read moreMusic Network: It was Good - Making Music to the Glory of God
A review of ‘It was Good: Making Music to the Glory of God’, a book by various authors
Read moreMusic Network: Dripping with God - the inescapable subject of choral music
Questions for reflection or group discussion on a fascinating article written by an atheist choral singer
Read moreMusic Network: Music Network introduction
Introducing the UCCF Music Network - why it exists, what it does and how it achieves its aims
Read moreMusic Network: Music Student Christmas Carol Service 2020
A Christmas Carol Service put on by Music Network students in December 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 to set up a Music Network group at your university
A quick guide to the key things to think about as you set up a Music Network group at your university.
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: Is music special?
The value of music in God’s economy discussed in under 5 minutes
Read moreMusic Network: Is music still good after the Fall?
How the Fall has affected music discussed in under 5 minutes
Read moreMusic Network: What music will be in the new creation?
Music in the new creation discussed in under 5 minutes
Read moreMusic Network: Forum 2019: 'beyond excited to go back to university to study music!'
Durham music student Caitlin Hayton shares her experience of Forum 2019
Read moreMusic Network: Journeying with the Music Network: an interview
An interview with American clarinettist Emily Kerski about her Music Network journey
Read moreMusic Network: Living like Christ in the world of music
Reflections from University of Surrey music student Phil Chevassut on the Music Network’s 2021 Autumn Gathering on ‘Christlikeness’
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 moreMusic Network: My Forum experience: the music college student
RNCM violinist Nathan Fenwick shares his experience of Forum 2018
Read moreMusic Network: My Forum experience: the university music student
Oxford music student Josh Venables shares his experience of Forum 2018
Read moreMusic Network: 'Stay Salt' book club
Reflections on lessons learnt about evangelism from a book club for music students
Read morePolitics Network: The Politics Network Discusses Public Art
We sat down with Arts Network staffer Becca, to chat about the interactions between politics and art.
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 morePolitics Network: Living Christianity: A Review
A review of Living Christianity, a publication by the Christian Institute
Read moreScience Network: Think, Live, Speak: group study guide
How do science and Christian faith work together? How can we share our faith with our fellow science students?
Read moreScience Network: Supporting science students: thoughts for student workers
Read moreTheology Network: A Guide to Leading a Hub
A brief guide to what’s involved in leading a Theology Network hub
Read moreTheology Network: The Second Most Important Book You Will Ever Read
Theological students should reach for Machen’s little book every year to remind themselves that orthodoxy does not equate to obscurantism, but that there is something really at stake here in the struggle between orthodox, supernatural Christianity and everything else.
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?
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