LINKS Links to some of the educational institutions and organisations from which we gain inspiration The Evangelical Alliance (EA) http:// www.eauk.org/ The Evangelical Alliance's purpose is: * To promote unity and truth. * To represent evangelical concerns to the wider world of the Church, state and society. It does this in a spirit of servanthood by: * Affirming the value of our unity in diversity, fostering mutual accountability and working for reconciliation in areas of disagreement. * Proclaiming, explaining and living biblical truth in contemporary culture. * Fostering evangelical concern, working through members locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. * Advocating evangelical perspectives to governments, media and the wider Church and defending religious liberty. * Encouraging united holistic evangelical action in prayer, evangelism, mission and the pursuit of justice and responsibility at home and worldwide. Christian Studies Unit (CSU) http://www.christianstudiesunit.org.uk offers a booklist compiled by Richard Russell which makes available works of Christian scholarship otherwise virtually unobtainable in Britain. These materials express a conviction that Christian discipleship calls for a Christian perspective in every discipline and on every aspect or entity of the creation. “You are absolutely right. I have long been grateful to Richard Russell and for reformational scholarship.” (Rt. Rev. Jonathan Gledhill, Bishop of Lichfield) The International Association for the Promotion of Christian Higher Education (IAPCHE) http://www.iapche.org an organization of individuals and institutions, serves Jesus as Lord by fostering, worldwide, the development of integral Christian higher education through networking and related academic activity. The Gospel and Our Culture Network http://www.gospel-culture.org.uk aims to stimulate and assist the Church's witness in and to Western culture, with a view to transforming the basic premises of that culture in the light of the reality of Jesus Christ. London Institute for Contemporary Christianity, London, UK (LICC) http://www.licc.org.uk is there to equip Christians to engage biblically and relevantly with the issues they face, including Work, Capitalism, Youth Culture, Media and Communication and so make a difference in the world. Sarum College, Salisbury, UK http://www.sarum.ac.uk aims to be a place of ‘living theology’ where the love of learning and the desire for God can flourish together, a welcoming place for all people, a force for unity among Christians. The Dooyeweerd Pages at Salford University, Salford, UK http://www.isi.salford.ac.uk/dooy/ are designed to aid scholars in understanding the Christian philosophy of Herman Dooyeweerd, "the most profound, innovative and penetrating philosopher since Kant" (Giorgio Delvecchio) Redeemer University College, Ancaster, Ontario, Canada http://www.redeemer.ca offers a Scripturally-directed university-level liberal arts and science education which explores the relation of faith, learning and living from a Reformed Christian perspective and also supports research and creative endeavour in this context. Central to its mission are these objectives: to equip students for lives of leadership and service under Jesus Christ’s Lordship; to advance knowledge through excellence in teaching and scholarship; to be an academic community whose faculty, staff and students develop intellectually, socially and spiritually; to reach out through academic service to society; and in all these things to glorify God. The Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto, Canada (ICS) http://www.ics.canada.edu provides Christian graduate education that addresses the spiritual foundations of learning and equips Christians around the world to be effective leaders in the academic arena and in other areas of society. The Center for Public Justice, Washington DC, USA (CPJ) http://www.cpjustice.org aspires to a United States and world in which citizens, particularly Christians, take civic responsibilities seriously as service to God, till the kingdom of God comes in its fullness; to a United States and world whose governments carry out their high calling to do justice to all citizens, institutions and communities; and to a United States and world where citizens and leaders work together to shape public life for the good of all, both nationally and internationally. Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA http://www.calvin.edu is a comprehensive liberal arts college in the Reformed tradition of historic Christianity. Through learning, its members seek to be agents of renewal in academy, church, and society, pledging fidelity to Jesus Christ, offering hearts and lives to do God's work in God's world. As shalom suggests peace, wholeness, harmony, restored relationships with nature, other humans and God, Christian college education equips them to be agents of shalom, models of shalom, witnesses to shalom. Dordt College, Sioux Center, Iowa, USA http://www.dordt.edu has a mission to develop and implement an understanding of the entire creation in the liberating light of the Scripture. It desires to be an institution of Reformed, Christian learning for the benefit of both students and the broader community by providing serviceable insight to prepare students for competent, obedient service in all aspects of contemporary life. The King’s University College, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada http://kingsu.ab.ca attracts students of all ages from many backgrounds. Its educational philosophy is rooted in the historic Christian faith: its teaching and research are influenced by a Christian worldview. The college stresses academic excellence within a caring environment. Free University Master’s Programme: Christian Studies of Science & Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands http://www.ph.vu.nl/english is an international programme aiming to give students an opportunity to research (and develop cooperatively) a Christian perspective on contemporary issues in science and society: (1) The student starts with basic reflections on Philosophical Foundations, then (2) chooses a specialization in Philosophical Anthropology or in Social and Political Theory and (3) finally prepares for, and writes a Master’s Thesis. (in Dutch) The Foundation for Reformational Philosophy, Amersfoort, Netherlands http://home.planet.nl/~srw/nwe/inf.html serves a philosophical movement that strives to be integrally Christian, reflecting, in the light of the truth revealed in the Bible, upon the created reality as a law-ordered and normative reality, upon the consequences of sin in that reality, and upon the meaning of the salvation which is offered to humankind and to the world through the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.