The World Cup is starting very soon and this article honours this excitement. Emmanuel Petit is a French former professional footballer. He is best known for scoring in the 1998 World Cup Final and winning Euro 2000 with France. His goal Read more
Most of what we study is invisible, intangible, not even a thing. That isn’t a criticism; rather, I believe this is a profound realisation that shows how scholarship assumes a more-than-material world. Of course, people do study particular things. Some Read more
When we think about a concentration camp we are immediately confronted with human depravity and cruelty. The guards in these camps were brutal and merciless. The Nazi creed proclaimed that many people, including Jewish and disabled people are, ‘life unworthy Read more
The approach to Easter this year comes at a time of great upheaval and instability, in the Middle East and across the world. There’s nothing new there, perhaps: amid the ongoing post-Covid global permacrisis, with new ‘wars and rumours of Read more
How do you serve God as a soldier? For some this question is absurd. Only pastors, preachers and missionaries can serve the Lord, they murmur piously. We have already explored the inspiring story of the detective William Sleeman but let’s Read more
It needs to be more widely known that the “history of the conflict between religion and science” essentially originates in one book of that title of 1875, with encouragement from a History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Read more
I have been reading and studying Studies in Words by C. S. Lewis since 1991. Over time, it has become a personal classic, not a book I merely consult, but one I return to as language, culture, and education continue Read more
Many people experience trouble and strife during their lives. We live in a broken, groaning world (Romans 8) and sometimes innocent people suffer greatly. We know that many Christians in the first century were persecuted for their faith in Jesus. Read more
“You are correct: something is seriously wrong.” This manifesto is an urgent call to arms about the capacity of human attention and what is threatening it today.
I wrote a while ago about a biblical way to construe AI. It’s an analogy, and it goes like this. Just as God made humans to be his image in the world and exercise God’s loving power on his behalf, Read more