Ideas In Practice

Practical application of of ideas to help us as Christian Academics

A little gem

The original author is unknown, but Dr Gwynne Davies wants to share this little gem with us all. Is it relevant to your life? Whether or not that is true, why not share it with your students? and let us know what they think?  The  Mayonnaise Jar and Coffee When things in your life seem…

Faith and Work

As a Christian Dr Green reflects on the inter relation between work and faith which guided his involvement in the field of international education. Writing “to all God’s people scattered over the whole world” James[1] has little time for a faith that is merely an egotistic expression of self-reflection and perhaps, even, ambition.   In his…

FE: Exploring Christianity

A would-be philosopher, a lecturer, a student and a mum were just some of the people who came on a trip Exploring the Christian World View. All confessed they learned a lot, and wanted to know what would be next! But this was not some spectacular high cost event. This was a bona-fide course run…

Look who’s calling ‘Commercial Theology’?

In his talk at the 2002 “Professing Christ on Campus” C-A-N Conference, John Griffiths introduces fresh ideas on communicating the Gospel in the modern world. Who’s Calling – ‘Commercial Theology’?(John Griffiths) Jesus was a carpenter from the age of 12 to 30. What was the connection between Jesus working as a carpenter in Nazareth and…

Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality I’ve had many dreams, some pleasant, some horrific when I’ve woken up sweating, but often depending on what I’d eaten for supper the previous evening. Some are predictably based on latent fears, like being buried alive. The horrific ones seem to stand out in the memory rather more than those with a pleasant…