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A chronological record of essays, thinking tools, and interventions.
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Review of Thinking Through Creation in Themelios
The latest edition of the journal Themelios carried a review of Thinking Through Creation by Robert S. Smith of Sydney Missionary and Bible College and Steve Frederick of St Andrew’s Cathedral, Sydney. The full text of the review is available on the Themelios site, and also pasted below. REVIEWS Volume 44 – Issue 3 Thinking Through
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“Ideas are powerful; all they need is a voice.” – The Biola Center for Christian Thought
The Biola University Center for Christian Thought has some great online resources for helping Christians think about how we can do good in academia and in our disciplines, helping them to flourish. Here is a short teaser video that introduces the Center through a brief meditation on the power of ideas:
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My hymn ‘So Near’ is now available on YouTube and Spotify
Way back in the mists of time I wrote a number of poems/hymns/songs expressing truths of the Christian life that were particularly precious to me at the time. Lo and behold, one of them has made it onto a beautiful new album produced by members of the congregation at Christ Church Cambridge. The piece is
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Video talk: Thinking Through Sin and Judgment
What is sin? What are the implications of the Bible’s presentation of sin for cultural production, politics, art and society? What is the asymmetry of good and evil, and why does it matter? How does it ground democracy and equality? This talk considers how Genesis 3 and 11 provide tools of cultural critique, and shows
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Biola Center for Christian Thought: Plantinga and Wolterstorff on the academic totem pole
Biola University’s Centre for Christian Thought is a great resource for Christian postgrads and academics who want to deepen their thinking about how to serve Christ in secular academia. Here’s a taster to whet your appetite: Nicholas Wolterstorff and Alvin Plantinga on how to deal with the academic totem pole. Plantinga’s insight is spot on
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Video talk: Thinking Through Creation
How does the fact that God is both absolute and personal shape a Christian view of reality and culture? How does the biblical truth that human beings are made in the image of God help Christians to avoid two opposite dangers in relation to human identity? How does God’s command to Adam and Eve to
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Video talk: Introduction to Thinking Through the Bible
This is the first in a series of four talks exploring how the biblical turning points of creation, fall and redemption can 1) shape fresh and faithful interventions into some of the most important social, cultural, political and intellectual debates of our day, and 2) help Christian students to understand and engage with their academic
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A Prayer of Samuel Logan Brengle
Keep me, O Lord, from waxing mentally and spiritually dull and stupid. Help me to keep the physical, mental and spiritual fibre of the athlete, of the man who denies himself daily and takes up his cross and follows Thee. Give me good success in my work, but hide pride from me. Save me from
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Bible and culture 3: Universal Truth, Specific Cultures, and the Incarnation
In this third post in the Bible and culture series I continue to take an eschatologically realist approach to Revelation 7. Specifically, I bring the remarkable claims of Christ’s incarnation alongside Revelation 7 in order to show that biblcial truth is not a-cultural, monocultural or even multicultural, but transcultural. We moderns tend to think of
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Bible and culture 2: The Revelation 7 Paradigm
In this second post in the series on the Bible and culture I continue to prepare the ground for a series of reflections about bringing Bible and culture into conversation. Having sketched out the importance of eschatological realism, I now want to explore how the depiction of the new heavens and new earth in the
