Good name for a blog?
Particularly for a Christian physicist or mathematician!
Asymptotically Approaching Infinity
Good name for a blog?
Particularly for a Christian physicist or mathematician!
Nathanael
So this week has been an interesting one! Some of you may remember that when Zachariah was born, he had seizures. We thought until now that this was because of complications in his birth. But then this week Nathanael started having seizures too. It turns out they both have something called Benign Neonatal Convulsions which can run in families. They don’t cause any long-term damage and they don’t lead to epilepsy. But they are still very scary to watch! Nathanael was in hospital from Monday afternoon until Friday morning. They looked after him really well and he seems perfectly fine now, you wouldn’t know anything was wrong earlier in the week! We’re happy to be home with Nathan and Zach together again.
The Nature of Research
I had a very interesting discussion with my friend the other day, about what she should write for her MA dissertation. On thinking through what we talked about, I realised it highlighted the pressures of any research situation—the battle to balance three key criteria:
- What the researcher is interested in,
- What the key stakeholders are interested in,
- What is achievable with the available resources.
For my friend, the title of her dissertation at the start of her MA year was very much what she is interested in, it’s a question she really wants to find an answer for and is passionate about. It perfectly fulfils the first criteria.
We were talking about names for our next son and things got silly when we started thinking of all the things he could say, “That’s my middle name!”
How about ‘Luke Integrity Easton’—"Integrity’s my middle name!“
…shame about the initials.
Cross-Cultural Conflict
I’ve learnt so much on this course, but nothing has been so surprising as learning that so much of what we take for granted is culture-specific.
We’re looking at causes of cross-cultural conflict within teams at the moment, and it’s been a real wake-up call for my future working in China. Systems that we take for the granted in the West are actually not very transferrable into other cultures.
My song is love unknown
My Saviour’s love to me
Love to the loveless shown
That they might lovely be
O who am I
That for my sake
My Lord should take
Frail flesh and dieHe came from his blest throne
Salvation to bestow
But men made strange and none
The longed-for Christ would know
But O my Friend
My Friend indeed
Who at my need
His life did spendSometimes they strew his way
And his sweet praises sing
Resounding all the day
Hosannas to their King
Then “Crucify!”
Is all their breath
And for his death
They thirst and cryThey rise and needs will have
My dear Lord made away
A murderer they save
The Prince of Life they slay
Yet cheerful he
To suffering goes
That he his foes
From thence might freeIn life no house no home
My Lord on earth might have
In death no friendly tomb
But what a stranger gave
What may I say
Heaven was his home
But mine the tomb
Wherein he layHere might I stay and sing
No story so divine
Never was love dear King
Never was grief like thine
This is my friend
In whose sweet praise
I all my days
Could gladly spend
My Song Is Love Unknown
Samuel Crossman
CCLI Song Number 2399704
Public Domain
Do you have just one minute spare to help defend the human embryo?
Do you have just one minute spare to help defend the human embryo?
I believe that even embryos have a right to life. What do you think?
God is a unity of diversity.
Dr P. Davies
Science’s function is to describe processes, but it cannot pronounce on the purpose of things. Physicists and biologists have a right to say that in looking at matter and life scientifically, no evident purpose is discovered. They overstep their limits if they go on to require faith in pure chance as opposed to faith in a creator. In any decision which may have to be made between faith in God or in ‘blind chance’, the science of evolution is strictly neutral, and cannot be anything else.
“Origins of Religion” by Robert Brow
in “The World’s Religions: A Lion Handbook”. Ed by R Pierce Beaver, Tring: Lion, 1982.1st Ed. pp.30–34
in “The World’s Religions: A Lion Handbook”. Ed by R Pierce Beaver, Tring: Lion, 1982.1st Ed. pp.30–34