In a culture where green issues are increasingly mainstream, why might you choose to get involved with an organization like the John Ray Initiative, which looks at scientific and environmental issues through a specifically Christian lens? I mean, everyone is interested in this stuff, right, so why on earth would …
On Friday 11th January 2019, I had finished a meeting in Oxford and I was walking through Cornmarket to catch my bus home. Suddenly, a crowd of young people appeared, marching towards me, bearing placards and chanting. As they got closer I realised that this was my first close up …
Saturday 27th April 2019- Rewilding- A Christian Perspective. A day conference at Ripon College Cuddesdon with Rev Prof Andy Gosler, Dr John Bimson and Chris Naylor CRES and JRI will join together on 27th April 2019 to look at the topic of Rewilding. We are very pleased to welcome Rev …
Michael J. Gorman has changed the way I look at Christ’s saving work on the cross. His book The Death of the Messiah and the Birth of the New Covenant: A (Not-So) New Model of the Atonement [1] proposes that the New Covenant should be seen as the essential way of viewing …
Allow me to introduce myself. I’m Beth Warman, a PhD student at the University of Lincoln, studying the psychology of what lies behind pro-environmental behaviours. When it comes to understanding why people live in environmentally sustainable ways, most research carried out by psychologists has been fairly negative. That is, psychologists …
Back in the mid-2000s, I was part of a team of scientists led by Adrian Parker at Oxford Brookes University, who were looking at past climatic changes in the Arabian Peninsula. Adrian would go off to the United Arab Emirates and come back with a whole lot of samples which …
