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So 'naming', creating definitions and classifications is a basic human activity mandated by God. How might medical language illuminate or distort our view of people? how do you know? There are two main schools of thought about knowledge. At one end, there is positivism which relies on hard sciences to 'read'...
One of the central teachings of the Bible, especially emphasised in the letters of Paul, is the principle of the lordship of Christ over all of life. This principle received special attention by Christians fighting back against the modern secular dualism that divided spheres of reality between sacred and profane....
Time, or rather the lack of it, is a subject close to every medic's heart. Perhaps we laugh ruefully at Ecclesiastes' claim that 'there is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.' (1) If only. When you pause for breath, you might notice that...
Dave had just started medical school. He didn't know many people, and was keen to find a lively and welcoming church. Ideally with free food. He soon found a large, student church near campus, with achingly cool people and 'awesome' worship music. The YouTube videos they used instead of sermons...
Many fear that the ongoing reforms of the National Health Service (NHS) by the last two administrations are an attempt to 'privatise' the health service by stealth. (1) These anxieties, from both left-wing media and health professional bodies, stem from a concern that subcontracting out services to 'for profit' companies...
It's entirely possible that many student readers of Nucleus will hardly know the name Billy Graham. But at the peak of his powers Billy Graham ranked with Martin Luther King as one of America's best known and most respected twentieth-century Christian leaders and with Mother Teresa and Pope John-Paul II...
One of the priorities of the Nurses Department is to raise up and invest in young nursing and midwifery leaders. To this end, we held a retreat day for our student reps on Saturday 16 June. Rachel Hickson came to speak with her colleague Rev Helen Azur of Heartcry for...
I'm often asked why we use the term 'volunteer' at CMF. It evokes different images for each of us, some not so positive. We are, however, determined to see volunteering through a biblical lens. One such lens is that of being a servant. We serve because we lay our lives...
'Life in a hostile world' is the theme for the 2018 CMF junior doctors' conference. It will once again be held at Hothorpe Hall, set in beautiful rural Leicestershire. The main speaker is Rev Mohan Seevaratnam, a GP in Harrow, north-west London who has worked as a missionary in Sri...
Congratulations to all of our final year nursing and medical students who passed their last exams, placements and have been on elective. All the years of hard work and study have paid off - welcome to the profession. Wishing those starting foundation jobs or preceptorships this August all the very...
