Thank you, Richard, for a most informative review, and Gavin O’Costa for what must be an insightful book. It’s hard to tell which of you (or neither) but there are at least two intriguing segues being played – I believe of fundamental practical and theoretical importance. One is between the activities of Christians in a…
The living area God cleared for us Recently, my 2yr 9mth grandson drew a picture inside my birthday card with just clouds along the upper edge and a squiggle along the lower edge which he said was sea. The blank between neatly fitted my birthday greetings on the facing page. It was as though he…
A theological stance on universities in the UK God’s book of creation The so-called secularisation of British universities is better understood, my paper for the 2005 C-A-N- Conference argued (q.v.), as God’s exposure to unbelievers of much more of the culture and biology of humanity that he has created and upholds. Nature, society and individual…
The Revd John Stott has suggested that Original Sin is transmitted ‘horizontally’ (to contemporaries) as well as ‘vertically’ (to descendants). Current scientific forms of this view are considered for the Image of God that is created in humanity as well as the sin that we each inherit from its first committers. Dr Graeme Finlay is…
Comments on: A Jewel in the Crown of North America: Christian Higher Education (Bartholomew, Winter 2019) Craig Bartholomew’s piece is full of good points but is missing crucial principles and practicalities. Appropriately to the new leader of KLICE, much of the article is really about public ethics generallyin this country, not specifically universities. There…
This study investigated the leadership behaviours of presidents of Christian colleges and universities in North America. Data were collected from the chief financial administrator, the chief student affairs administrator, and the chief academic administrator on the independent variables of transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire leadership styles for the university president and the dependent variable of followers’…
Trends in Christian higher education indicate a growing interest in professional training programs that take Christian faith commitments and values seriously. This article explores one professional graduate program with secondary accreditation that attempts to be faithful to a Christian worldview while at the same time honouring the developments within its particular discipline. In a desire…
You Can Lecture, But Can You Teach? Eric Sotto argues that protests against the idea that academics be given teacher-training are misguided. Click here to read the article in Times Higher Education Eric Sotto is the author of ‘When Teaching Becomes Learning’ (second edition, 2007, paperback). London & New York: Continuum Education. Evidence-based qualification to teach…
Climate change – why we disagree This Christian perspective is in the book, ‘Why we disagree about climate change: understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity’ (CUP, 2009) written by a professor of climate change at the University of East Anglia, the site of the ‘Climategate’ controversy that arose after the book had been written. Mike Hulme…
Sir John Houghton, formerly Director of the Meteorological Office and for some years chair of the International Panel on Climate Change, also a leading member of our sister network Christians in Science, provided clear and authoritative answers to the United States Senate in July 2005 to questions about the latest scientific evidence for global warming…