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Christian postgraduate groups: how?

Posted by Anthony Smith in Faith-in-Scholarship blog on Friday 28th March 2014

So far in this series we’ve looked at the why and the what of Christian postgraduate groups. Some of our readers will already be involved in such groups. But there are plenty of universities in the UK where no such group exists at all. The cpgrad.org.uk site has been around for years, and has a list of Christian postgraduate groups. There may be some gaps (do leave a comment here if you notice any), but most of the established groups are probably there, and it’s not a long list!

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Christian postgraduate groups: what?

Posted by Thom Atkinson in Faith-in-Scholarship blog on Friday 21st March 2014

In the last blog post Eline wrote that the main aim of Christian postgraduate groups is “to help each other to live out our calling as Christian postgraduates,” explaining that “As a Christian postgraduate, you are called to carry out your research in a way that is faithful – filled with faith, and faithful to God’s purposes.”

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Christian postgraduate groups: why?

Posted by Eline van Asperen in Faith-in-Scholarship blog on Friday 28th February 2014

You’re a postgraduate with a busy research schedule, spending long hours in the lab or poring over books. You’re also a Christian, involved in a local church. You attend a church Bible study or house group, and maybe you are active in a particular ministry within the church. Why would you want to fill your precious free time with attending another group?

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What are we confessing when we seek academic qualifications?

Posted by Faith-in-Scholarship in Faith-in-Scholarship blog on Friday 21st February 2014

Bruce Wearne presented this paper at the Faith-in-Scholarship Postgraduate Leaders’ Conference in Leeds, February 2014

For it is not the one commending himself who is accepted, but the one whom the Lord commends.

2 Corinthians 10:18

Let’s engage our imaginations for a minute with respect to the event at the end of your search for academic qualifications. What is to happen? What has been the purpose of all this striving?

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The outrageous idea of Christian scholarship

Posted by Richard Gunton in Faith-in-Scholarship blog on Friday 14th February 2014

This is the title of a book by George Marsden – and it’s also the title that David Hanson took for his talk at the recent FiSch leaders’ conference.  In this and the next few posts, we’ll share some of the things we heard at this conference, which took place in Leeds on 31 Jan – 1 Feb.

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