As I write, volunteers from a community trust are distributing food parcels to people who have been deprived of their usual ways of earning an income during the lockdown in Mutare, the fourth largest city in Zimbabwe. I became involved in raising money for this initiative a week ago, and saw videos from the first […]
It’s difficult as a scientist to hear information that is fascinating, but which also involves so much suffering for other people. In one lab where I worked for a time as a student, scientists were finding out a great deal about how normal cells work by studying leukaemia – but any gains in knowledge often […]
I once visited a school to help give a lesson on science and religion to some older teenagers. One of the pupils had sadly passed away from cancer a few weeks before and his classmates asked, “How God could let this happen?” At one point they started to debate angrily, asking how someone could believe […]
This series of more extended posts sums up my recent work on beauty in science and theology, and is reproduced (with permission) from the BioLogos blog. What beauty tells us about God[1] Studying God is a balancing act. At times the theologian has to hold their breath, as it were, and suspend their sense of the […]
All of us find different aspects of the restrictions and changes brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic difficult, depending on our circumstances. Each of needs to find ways to cope in the long-term, as well as on particularly tough days. Some may need to seek urgent help from a GP, pastor, close friend or family […]
This series of articles explores the questions that come up again and again as Faraday speakers travel around the country giving talks on science and Christianity. Some of them are easier to answer than others. At times we can only attempt to explain why faith in God still makes sense despite the profound mysteries that […]