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nucleus: spring 2006
Editorial
Remember the old phrase, 'time flies when you're having fun'? Someone told me that in my first year (2000), a buzzing university fresher, as I moaned about graduating in 2006, God-willing! Medical school has certainly had its moments, but a speedy process it hasn't been. Plenty happens in six years...
Radical King - Radical Kingdom
Sophie Marnham pens her thoughts on the 2006 student conference - It's taken me three years to get my act together and actually sign up to one of these conferences, so I was certainly quite nervous about the whole affair on Friday 10 Feburary in joining 330 people, but by Sunday I felt encouraged,...
Peter Parker
Helen Barratt examines one of the pioneers of the medical missionary movement - China has been one of the largest areas of Christian growth in the last century. Hudson Taylor, who founded the China Inland Mission in 1875, is perhaps the most famous missionary to work in this region, and the work of...
News Review
GP travels to Switzerland to die - A retired GP from Bath, Dr Anne Turner, travelled to Switzerland in January to end her life at the controversial Dignitas clinic in Zurich. She suffered from progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), a degenerative condition caused by lesions in the area of the brain...
Radical discipleship in medicine
Peter Saunders outlines the example set for us by our Lord[1] - 'Jesus has always many who love His heavenly kingdom, but few who bear His cross; many who desire consolation, but few who care for trial…All desire to be happy with Him; few wish to suffer anything for Him… Many revere His miracles;...
Marriage & medical school
Abi Crutchlow and Chris Pollitt consider some pros and cons - Getting married at medical school is a big step to take. Some of you may have done it already, perhaps considered it, or maybe put it off as impractical. Here we look at some of the issues involved, from four different CMF members who...
Guidance and the sufficiency of Scripture
James Williams describes how the Bible is all we need - Ask ten different Christians how God guides them and you're almost guaranteed to get ten different answers, assuming that they believe God guides them at all. In this article I have set out to discuss how the sufficiency of Scripture affects...
Ethical Enigmas
Response to enigma 15:You are a haematologist with a two year old patient who has a rare form of leukaemia. She requires an HLA tissue match for a bone marrow transplant to give some hope of cure. The geneticist has suggested IVF with pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) to create a saviour...
Letters
Editor, - I refer to Jeremy Franklin's article on Scripture memory in the October 2005 edition. The importance of learning Scripture by heart cannot be over-emphasised. The followers of some pagan religions are often required to learn their sacred writings by heart. For instance, no one can teach...
Holiness and Sexuality: homosexuality in a biblical context (Book Review)
Holiness and Sexuality: homosexuality in a biblical context - David Peterson (editor) - Paternoster 2004 - £8.99 Pb 172pp - ISBN 1842272691 - Evangelicals are often left silent and uncomfortable on homosexuality, afraid on the one hand of demonstrating unquestioning acceptance and on the other of...