Test of Faith: Science and Christianity
Ruth Bancewicz
Friday 11 Mar 2011
‘What do you do?’ is a question that I sometimes dread. My job is either a conversation stopper or a conversation starter, depending on who’s asking…
Fusion: Training parents to strengthen families
Katy Phillips
Friday 11 Feb 2011
In 2004, two women began running parenting courses in a school in a deprived area of Dorset. At that time, neither of them could have envisaged the journey they had begun…
Everything and Spirituality
Matthew Hosier
Monday 8 Nov 2010
Not far from where I live, on the Dorset coast, there is a little known but world class surfing break. Well maybe that’s a little exaggerated, but there can be no doubt that this is a good wave – twenty footers have been reported when conditions are right. In a different part of the world this break would be much better known, but Dorset doesn’t tend to be thought of as surfing territory – it is not exactly Brazil or Hawaii!
To do God, or not to do God. The question
Andrew Wilson
Tuesday 28 Sep 2010
So the science versus God debate is back. And just like last time, it’s left me feeling I must be missing something. Reading the exchange of articles over the last few days, I feel a bit like someone who has walked into a fierce debate over whether Hamlet is a character created by Shakespeare, or whether on the other hand he is merely the son of Gertrude. As I watch the heavyweight academics line up and announce their verdict on the matter, I find myself wondering, with more than a little perplexity, ‘Can’t he be both?’
A Revolution of Everything
Matthew Hosier
Tuesday 26 Jan 2010
For over 200 years Western society has been governed by the division of labour. It is this specialisation that has allowed the incredible industrial and technological advances which have shaped our culture. From the production of cheap motorcars to the development of digital technology, specialisation has kept the wave of progress surging forward.
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