Found in Translation
16 November 2017 | Binfield, UK [Victor Hulbert / Robin Anthony] What is the common thread of the Reformation? In Reformation Journey, Victor Hulbert and Dejan Stojković have learnt about massacres and burnings of so called ‘heretics’, where safety one day may be death the next. Alongside all the other brave actions of men and women…
Read MoreChristianity and Capitalism – Why Women and Shopping Matter
13 November 2017 | Binfield, UK [Helen Pearson] In the week when ‘The Paradise Papers’ revealed the investment habits of some of the richest people in the world, Newbold’s last Diversity Lecture of 2017 focused on Christianity and Capitalism.
Read MoreNewbold Business Student Interns at TED
24 October, 2017 – Binfield, UK [Kirsty Watkins] Under a new agreement between the College and the Trans-European Division (TED), Newbold Business students are now able to undertake an internship at the Division's St Albans office.
Read MoreDying to ask the questions
26 October 2017 | Oxford, UK [Victor Hulbert with Robin Anthony] Is your faith worth dying for? In theory we often say yes. After all, Jesus died on a cross for us, and none of the apostles died a natural death. Yet would we, really? Maybe sometimes we just feel that we are simply dying in…
Read MoreTricky Situations – The Reformation and politics
19 October 2017 | Pyrford, UK [Robin Anthony / tedNEWS] The Reformation was clearly centred around religious concepts and ideas and as Christians we value the principles that grew out of it: the authority of scripture, the Bible in a language we can understand, and the whole concept close to Luther’s heart that “The just…
Read MoreFaith And Politics – A Reformation Anniversary View
17 October 2017 | Binfield, UK [Helen Pearson] Love it or hate it we can’t avoid it. We are all involved in politics. In celebrating 500 years of Reformation history, organisers of the 2017 Beach Lecture, selected Dr Alec Ryrie, Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Durham, to offer supporters of the…
Read MoreNewbold explores the Messy Call of God
11 October 2017 | Binfield, UK [Kirsty Watkins] Perhaps it was the surprising title – after all, we are told, God is a God of order. Yet around 120 Newbold students, together with youth from Newbold Church, met together every night throughout the week of 30 September - 7 October to explore The Messy Call of God.
Read MoreNew video series helps explain reformation themes
4 October 2017 | St Albans [tedNEWS] “And it’s a wrap,” declared Dragana Selaković at the end of a final day of filming Reformation Journey, a seven-part social media video series aimed at explaining some of the major themes of the Reformation. The first episode releases on Thursday, 5 October.
Read MoreNewbold’s The Experience Programme Kicks Off for the New Semester
26 September 2017 | Binfield, UK [Christle Jasinta] Around eighty students and visitors to Newbold attended the first Experience programme of the semester, with guest speaker Pastor Dejan Stojković, British Union Conference Youth director, on 12 September.
Read MoreBirgir Oskarsson, not your ordinary man
26 September 2017 | St Albans, UK [Victor Hulbert] Birgir Oskarsson is not your ordinary man. When most would run away from an erupting volcano, Birgir runs towards it – keen to find out more about its geology. His acute mind is seeking discovery.
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