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Study

Learning takes effort: the work of study, research, experiment, and thought occupies the vast majority of our time in school and at university, and lifelong learning is a feature of contemporary society, regardless our professions. How can we honour God by doing our best to study well?

Letter to a Young Christian En Route to College

You cannot go to college just to get a better job. Christ's call on you as a student is a calling to meet the needs of the Church, both for its own life and the life of the world.

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Engaging with Worldviews

How to engage with people holding various worldviews in a way which is relevant to them and true to the Gospel.

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Christianity and University Studies

Useful questions and advice helping students overcome the sacred-secular divide and see their studies as an opportunity to honour God, whatever their field of study.

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Get on Board the MS University!

As a fresh student entering university, you might feel like a young sailor ready to board on their first expedition. Should you rather back off? Or should You dare the risk?

Sep 16, 2020

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How can Academic Research Glorify God?

How, if at all, can one bring glory to God directly through academic work? God should be at the forefront of our thoughts and work.

Jun 6, 2020

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Musings on “Thinking Christianly”

Thinking Christianly will not lead to a utopian society. But we will love neither God nor neighbor well without thinking Christianly.

May 28, 2020

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On Being a Christian Academic

Prof. Donald Hay on being a Christian academic.

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Interview Iwan Russell-Jones

Iwan Russell-Jones on Christianity, the arts and imagination. Interviewed during the annual Cross-Current Professional Groups Conference in Berlin, November 2019.

Iwan Russell Jones

Jun 3, 2020

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Rethinking Life and Death

Singer interweaves a fabric of gripping narratives, dramatic individual fates, lawsuits, bits of history and medical ethics into a forceful imperative to rethink our convictions about life and death.

Iulia Ciubotariu

Dec 3, 2019

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The Universe Next Door

Whatever worldview I hold, I must remind myself that an attitude of humility as a working frame of reference is required. We can’t understand total reality. This book introduces us to this humility.

Iulia Ciubotariu

Jun 12, 2020

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Students of the Word

Stott is crystal clear; ‘the authority of Christ and the authority of scripture belong together’. How does Christ speak today? How does he govern his church? How does he exercise his authority?

Sep 26, 2019

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Foolishness to the Greeks

This book treats the First World as a mission field, offering a unique perspective on the relationship between the gospel and current society by presenting an outsider's view of Western culture.

Mar 12, 2019

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