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Author Index - Alex Bunn
Alex Bunn is a GP in London and CMF Southern Team Leader
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heroes + heretics (nucleus - spring 2013)
Heroes 10: David Livingstone 1813-1873 - 2013 is the 200th anniversary (1) of the birth of perhaps the most famous European explorer of all time, David Livingstone. Born to disadvantage in Blantyre, Scotland, he spent his childhood working in a mill 14 hours per day, six days per week. Less than...
Is the Gospel Good News for Healthcare? (triple helix - Winter 2012)
Alex Bunn on faith in the workplace. key points - The Christian faith is increasingly marginalised in the NHS and this is not good for patients or practitioners. A culture of targets and perfectionism negatively impacts care. Work is a gift of the Creator who invites us to engage in his work of...
heroes and heretics: heroes 9 - Pascal and Sydenham (nucleus - autumn 2012)
rationalism, doubt and a head in an oven: Descartes (1596-1650) - Faith and rationality are often seen to be incompatible. Religion is seen as irrational, or at least unconnected to reason. God botherers must hang up their brains with their coats at the church door. Intellectual suicide is...
Heroes and Heretics (nucleus - spring 2012)
The last edition remembered Tyndale, who was strangled and burnt for translating the Bible into English. His dying prayer was that the eyes of King Henry VIII would be opened. Just two years later, the assassin king decreed that Tyndale's Bible should be available in every parish in England. Sadly,...
heroes and heretics (nucleus - Christmas 2011)
Hero 7: William Tyndale Heretic: Henry VIII - What would you call a man who kills off two wives, confiscates state property, and then declares himself spiritual leader of the nation? Serial killer? Despot? Megalomaniac? Or the first head of the Church of England? No wonder Catholics sometimes ask...
spirituality of Monday to Saturday (nucleus - Christmas 2011)
Work is what you do when you'd rather be somewhere else, right? And maybe as a Christian you feel that the important spiritual work is done by pastors and evangelists, something of eternal value. After all, this world is going to be incinerated? Perhaps the best you can do is use medicine as a...
Tyndale challenge (nucleus - Christmas 2011)
Alex Bunn tests our Bible knowledge Even Richard Dawkins believes that we should all know our Bibles! The examples below have made a great contribution to English language and culture, which even Dawkins recognises. Does Richard Dawkins know his Bible better than UK medical students? See if you can...
heroes and heretics (nucleus - summer 2011)
the dangers of establishment and corruption - How did an obscure Jewish sect transform into medieval monasticism in Europe and beyond? We have traced the rise of Christianity in the West, especially following Constantine's conversion, which was in some ways a disaster for the church. While...
heroes and heretics (nucleus - Easter 2011)
Pelagius: champion of 'free will' - The location, North Africa. The time, early fifth century. And the villain this time is, in true Hollywood style, British. Pelagius was a monk, described by a contemporary as 'a fat dog stupefied with porridge'. But despite his reputation as a heretic, he did...
cmf file 44 (2011) - health benefits of Christian faith (CMF files)
Is there a link between faith and health? - Evidence from over 1,200 studies and 400 reviews has shown an association between faith and a number of positive health benefits, including protection from illness, coping with illness, and faster recovery from it. Of the studies reviewed in the...